Sketches of Rulers of India ...Clarendon Press, 1908 |
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administration adoption Afghan Afghanistan afterwards amongst annexation appointment Army Bengal British Government Broadfoot Calcutta called camp campaign capture career Cawnpur character characteristic chiefs command conspicuous crisis Darbar death Delhi District duty Earl Roberts effect Empire enemy England English fighting final force frontier gallant gallantry garrison Government of India guns hands Havelock heroes heroic honour influence Jalalabad Jhansi John Nicholson Kabul Lahore Lawrence's Lord Dalhousie Lord Hardinge Lord Mayo Lucknow ment military Muhammadan Mutiny Nana Sahib native Neill never numbers occasion officers OSWELL Oudh period Peshawar Proclamation Province Punjab Raja Rani rank rebels received recorded regiment remarked Residency rule Rulers of India second Sikh second Sikh War Sepoy siege Sir Colin Campbell Sir Henry Lawrence Sir Hugh Rose Sir John Kaye Sir John Lawrence soldier soon Strathnairn success sword Tantia Topi task troops Viceroy words wrote
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Pàgina 145 - CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR. WHO is the happy Warrior ? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be ? — It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought...
Pàgina 116 - Such was he : his work is done. But while the races of mankind endure, Let his great example stand Colossal, seen of every land, And keep the soldier firm, the statesman pure : Till in all lands and thro...
Pàgina 98 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ;w But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Pàgina 145 - Who, whether praise of him must walk the earth For ever, and to noble deeds give birth, Or He must go to dust without his fame, And leave a dead unprofitable name, Finds comfort in himself and in his cause; And, while the mortal mist is gathering, draws His breath in confidence of Heaven's applause; This is the happy Warrior; this is He Whom every Man in arms should wish to be.
Pàgina 143 - Edwardes had said to Lord Canning, " You may rely upon this, that if ever there is a desperate deed to be done in India. John Nicholson is the man to do it...
Pàgina 20 - the British Government would be guilty in the sight of God and man if it were any longer to aid in sustaining by its countenance an administration fraught with suffering to millions.
Pàgina 41 - Derby would write it himself in his excellent language, bearing in mind that it is a female sovereign who speaks to more than a hundred millions of Eastern people on assuming the direct 1858 INDIAN PROCLAMATION. 285 government over them, and after a bloody civil war, giving them pledges which her future reign is to redeem, and explaining the principles of her government.
Pàgina 72 - To you shall be left the glory of relieving Lucknow, for which you have already struggled so much. I shall accompany you only in my civil capacity as Commissioner, placing my military service at your disposal should you please, and serving under you as a volunteer.
Pàgina 27 - We must not forget that in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise, at first no bigger than a man's hand, but which, growing larger and larger, may at last threaten to burst, and overwhelm us with ruin.
Pàgina 141 - He was a man cast in a giant mould, with massive cliest and powerful limbs, and an expression ardent and commanding, with a dash of roughness ; features of stern beauty, a long black beard and deep sonorous voice. There was something of immense strength, talent, and resolution in his whole -gait and manner, and a power of ruling men on high occasions, that no one could escape noticing at once.