Narrative of the War in Affghanistan [sic] in 1838-39, Volum 2H. Colburn, 1840 |
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Narrative of the War in Affghanistan in 1838-39, Volum 2 Sir Henry Havelock Visualització completa - 1840 |
Narrative of the War in Affghanistan in 1838-39, Volum 2 Sir Henry Havelock Visualització completa - 1840 |
Narrative of the War in Affghanistan in 1838-39, Volum 2 Sir Henry Havelock Visualització completa - 1840 |
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13th light infantry 16th lancers advance Affghan Affghanistan Alee Musjid Alexander Burnes Ameer of Cabool army attack Bala Hissar Bamian Barukzye bazars Bengal Native Infantry Bombay Bombay Artillery brigade Brigadier Sale Bukkur Cabool Cabool river Cabul camels camp Candahar capital Captain Outram chief citadel Colonel Wade column command Commander-in-Chief commissariat defiles detachment ditto division Dooranee Dost Mahomed Khan Dost Moohummud Khan encamped enemy Envoy and Minister Excellency Ferozepore file wounded fire force fortress garden garrison gate Ghiljees Ghuznee Governor-General of India Hajee Khan Havildars head quarters Helmund Herat hundred India Indus Jellalabad Kafilas Kheil Khyber Lieut Lieut.-Col Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel light cavalry lofty Major mand ment miles monarch Moohummud Hyder mountains officers party pass Persian Peshawur plains rank and file regiment native infantry Right Honourable road route Shah Shooja Sikh Singh Sir John Keane Sir Willoughby Cotton soldiers Teera troops Turnuk Urghundee valley walls whilst
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Pàgina 244 - Sooja-ool-Moolk, whereby his Highness is guaranteed in his present possessions, and has bound himself to co-operate for the restoration of the Shah to the throne of his ancestors. The friends and enemies of any one of the contracting parties have been declared to be the friends and enemies of all.
Pàgina 243 - His attention was naturally drawn at this conjuncture to the position and claims of Shah Soojah-ool-Moolk, a monarch who, when in power, had cordially acceded to the measures of united resistance to external enmity, which were at that time judged necessary by the British Government, and who, on his empire being usurped by its present rulers, had found an honourable asylum in the British dominions.
Pàgina 242 - M'Neill, her Majesty's Envoy, that his Excellency has been compelled, by a refusal of his just demands, and by a systematic course of disrespect adopted towards him by the Persian Government, to quit the Court of the Shah, and to make a public declaration of the cessation of all intercourse between the two Governments. The necessity under which Great Britain is placed of regarding the present advance of the Persian arms into Afghanistan as an act of hostility towards herself, has also been officially...
Pàgina 241 - ... and continued, notwithstanding the solemn and repeated remonstrances of the British Envoy at the Court of Persia, and after every just and becoming offer of accommodation had been made and rejected. The besieged have behaved with...
Pàgina 245 - ... of Central Asia; that tranquillity will be established upon the most important frontier of India ; and that a lasting barrier will be raised against hostile intrigue and encroachment. His Majesty, Shah Soojah-ool-Moolk will enter Afghanistan, surrounded by his own troops, and will be supported against foreign interference and factious opposition by a British army.
Pàgina 80 - Affghan ; but still the desperado continued to struggle with frantic violence. At length, in the fierce grapple, the brigadier for a moment got uppermost. Still retaining the weapon of his enemy in his left hand, he dealt him, with his right, a cut from his own sabre, which cleft his skull from the crown to the eyebrows. The Moohummedan once shouted " Ue Ullah," and never spoke or moved again.
Pàgina 239 - After much time spent by Captain Burnes in fruitless negotiation at Cabul, it appeared that Dost Mahomed Khan, chiefly in consequence of his reliance upon Persian encouragement and assistance, persisted, as respected his misunderstanding with the Sikhs, in urging the most unreasonable pretensions...
Pàgina 241 - Governor-General deems it in this place necessary to revert to the siege of Herat, and the conduct of the Persian nation. The siege of that city has now been carried on by the Persian army for many months. The attack upon it was a most unjustifiable and cruel aggression, perpetrated and continued...
Pàgina 246 - Affghan people. Throughout the approaching operations, British influence will be sedulously employed to further every measure of general benefit ; to reconcile differences ; to secure oblivion of injuries ; and to put an end to the distractions by which, for so many years, the welfare and happiness of the Affghans have been impaired. Even to the Chiefs, whose hostile proceedings have given just cause of offence to the British Government, it will seek to secure liberal and honorable treatment, on...
Pàgina 242 - ... adherence to the Persian policy, with the same full knowledge of its opposition to the rights and interests of the British nation in India, and have been openly assisting in the operations against Herat...