The Government of India

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J. Murray, 1833 - 540 pàgines

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Pàgina 124 - Bengal for the time being and all other persons whom it may concern are to take notice and govern themselves accordingly.
Pàgina 194 - Madras evinced at that trying juncture; but if a momeut was to be named when the existence of the British power depended upon its native troops, we should fix upon the battle of Portonovo. Driven to the sea-shore, attacked by an enemy exulting in recent success^, confident in his numbers, and strong in the terror of his name, every circumstance combined that could dishearten the small body of men on whom the fate of the war depended : not a heart shrunk from the trial. Of the European troops it is...
Pàgina 120 - An Act for continuing in the East India Company, for a further term, the possession of the British Territories in India, together with certain exclusive privileges, for establishing further regulations for the Government of the said Territories, and the better administration of justice within the same ; and for regulating the trade to and from the places within...
Pàgina 210 - When in square, and sustaining charges from the enemy's horse, it more than once happened, when a musket was fired by a young soldier, that a veteran struck him with the butt end of his firelock, exclaiming, " Are you mad, to destroy our discipline and make us like the " rabble that are attacking us...
Pàgina 200 - Malabar, marched a distance of 500 miles to Madras, to embark on a voyage of six or eight weeks, to rejoin the army to which they belonged at Bombay. During the march from Mysore the guards of the Sultan carefully separated those men, whenever they encamped, by a tank (a large reservoir) or some other supposed insurmountable obstacle, from the European prisoners, among whom were their officers. Not a night...
Pàgina 189 - The fidelity of the native cavalry did not shrink from the severe trial, and after the gates of the fortress were blown open, their sabres were as deeply* stained as those of the English dragoons with the blood of their misguided and guilty countrymen. But a few authentic anecdotes of some of the most distinguished individuals of the native cavalry of Madras, will show better than volumes the high spirit which rtervades that corps.
Pàgina 199 - Towards the close of the war with Tippoo, in 1782, the whole of the force under General Matthews were made prisoners. The Sultan, sensible of the advantages he might derive from the accession of a body of well-disciplined men, made every offer that he thought could tempt the English sepoys into his service, but in vain. He ordered them to work upon his fortifications, particularly...
Pàgina 199 - It is probably owing to the peculiar composition, and to the local situation of the territories in which they are employed, that the sepoys of Bombay have at all periods been found ready to embark on foreign service. They are, in fact, familiar to the sea, and only a small proportion of them are incommoded in a voyage by those privations to which others are subject from prejudices of caste.
Pàgina 199 - ... of caste. But this is only one of the merits of the Bombay native soldier: he is patient, faithful, and brave, and attached in a remarkable degree to his European officers. There cannot be a class of men more cheerful under privation and difficulties; and though desertion is very frequent among the recruits of this army, who, from the local position of Bombay, can on the first feeling of disgust at discipline, always in a few hours escape to the Mahratta territories, where they are safe from...
Pàgina 147 - I am decidedly of opinion that the tranquillity, not to say the security, of our vast Oriental possessions is involved in the preservation of the native principalities which are dependent upon us for protection.

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