Narrative of the War in Affghanistan in 1838-39, Volum 2Henry Colburn, Publisher, 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 [sic] in 1838-39, Volum 2 Sir Henry Havelock Visualització completa - 1840 |
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advance Affghanistan Affghans Ameer amongst arms army attack baggage Bala Hissar Barukzye Belooche Bengal force Bhawul Khan Bolan Bolan pass Bombay British Bukkur Cabool Cabul camels camp Candahar capital Colonel columns command commander-in-chief contingent corps Cutch Gundava Dadur debouched defile Dera desert division Dost Moohummud durru dusht encampment Ferozepore fortress frontier Gharra Ghuznee governor-general head-quarters Helmund Herat Hindoostan Hydrabad India Indus Kafila Kakurs Kelat Khyber Khyrpore Kozuk Kurnal Kwettah Lieutenant light cavalry lofty lower Sinde Maha Rajah Meer Roostum Meerut ment Mihrab Khan miles morning mountains moved officers party pass Persian Peshawur plains Punjab range reached regiment native infantry right bank river road Rojhan Roree route ruler Runjeet seen Shah Shooja Shikarpore Sikh Sindian Singh Sir Alexander Burnes Sir Henry Fane Sir John Keane Sir Willoughby Cotton sirdars Siriab soldiers stream Sutlege tents tion town traversed troops valley walls whilst whole
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Pàgina 244 - Shoojah-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 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 246 - Crown ; but he rejoices that, in the discharge of his duty, he will be enabled to assist in restoring the union and prosperity of the Afghan 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 Afghans have been impaired.
Pàgina 240 - Singh, be the channel of submitting to the consideration of his Highness ; that he avowed schemes of aggrandizement and ambition injurious to the security and peace of the frontiers of India...
Pàgina 323 - But it shared honourably in the labours and difficulties of the Campaign, and it had the good fortune in repelling an attack made by the enemy in force, on the day prior to the storming of Ghuznee, to be enabled to give promise of the excellent service which may hereafter be expected from it.
Pàgina 243 - The welfare of our possessions in the East requires that we should have on our Western Frontier, an Ally, who is interested in resisting aggression, and establishing tranquillity, in the place of Chiefs ranging themselves in subservience to a hostile power, and seeking to promote schemes of conquest and aggrandizement.
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...