Sale's Brigade in Afghanistan: With an Account of the Seisure and Defence of JellalabadJ. Murray, 1846 - 182 pagina's Lille men detaljeret bog om Sales brigade, 13th Queens og 35th Bengal Native Infantrys kampe ved Kabul, Jellalabad (Jallalabad) under Afghanistankrigen 1839-1842. |
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Pagina 11 - Singh, had for their object, by opening the navigation of the Indus, to facilitate the extension of commerce, and to gain for the British nation in Central Asia that legitimate influence which an interchange of benefits would naturally produce.
Pagina 1 - Afghaunistan and Segistan, with part of Khorasan and of Makran ; Balk, with Tokarestaun and Kilan ; Kuttore, Caubul, Candahar, Sindy, and Cashmeer, together with a portion of Lahore and the greater part of Moultan. The whole population of the Kingdom cannot be under fourteen millions. This was the number fixed by one of the gentlemen of the mission, on a calculation of the extent and comparative population of the different provinces.
Pagina 18 - The Governor-General confidently hopes that the Shah will be speedily replaced on his throne by his own subjects and adherents ; and when once he shall be secured in power, and the independence and integrity of Afghanistan established, the British army will be withdrawn.
Pagina 65 - we see that you are notlike the infidel Hindoos that follow you ; you are men born and bred like ourselves, where the seasons vary, and in their changes give vigour both to body and mind. We wish that you had come among us as friends, and not as enemies, for you are fine fellows one by one, though as a body we hate you.
Pagina 131 - Under such circumstances, it is very little to be wondered at if men's blood curdled while they watched the advance of the solitary horseman ; and the voice of Dennie sounded like the response of an oracle when he exclaimed, ' Did I not say so 1 Here comes the messenger.
Pagina 131 - 11 see. Not a soul will escape from Cabul except one man ; and he will come to tell us that the rest are destroyed." Under such circumstances it is very little to be wondered at, if men's blood curdled while they watched the advance of the solitary horseman ; and the voice of Dennie sounded like...
Pagina 63 - Being great gamblers in their own way, they looked on with astonishment at the bowling, batting, and fagging out of the English players ; but it does not appear that they were ever tempted to lay aside their flowing robes and huge turbans and enter the field as competitors.
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Pagina 128 - Cabul, as well as such stores and baggage as they were unable to carry away. " Everything," it observed, " had been done in good faith ; you will not be molested on your way ; and to the safe conduct which Akbar Khan has given I trust for the passage of the troops under my immediate orders through the passes." A council of war was immediately held, and the question raised by this letter was warmly debated. Havelock and Broadfoot urged that obedience was not due to an order written under compulsion,...