The Conquest of Scinde: With Some Introductory Passages in the Life of Major-General Sir Charles James Napier, Էջ 1 |
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Էջ 7 - Treatise on the Principle and Construction of Military Bridges, and the Passage of Rivers in Military Operations.
Էջ 65 - neither the ready power to crush and annihilate them nor the will to call it into action were wanting, if it appeared requisite however remotely for the safety and integrity of the Anglo-Indian empire or frontier'.
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Էջ 4 - British officer, who never fears a rival, and never knew what it was to have an enemy, or to hate any man. His descriptions are remarkable for their vividness and accuracy, and his anecdotes will bear repetition once a week for life.
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Էջ 40 - Scinde is now gone, since the English have seen the river which is the high road to its conquest," was the prescient observation of a Syud near Tatta.
Էջ 176 - Lord Ellenborough and myself found them. I cannot enter upon our right to be here at all, that is Lord Auckland's affair. Well, I presented the draft of the new treaty. The Ameers bowed with their usual apparent compliance, but raised troops in all directions. These I was ordered by the GovernorGeneral to disperse.
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Էջ 7 - I was dining out, an old gentleman asked me whether the officers who were on guard in London, on the day of the Derby, did not receive a compensatory pension from government; nay, so firmly convinced was he that such was the case, that I had some difficulty in persuading him that his impression on the subject was erroneous.
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| Վերնագիր | The Conquest of Scinde: With Some Introductory Passages in the Life of Major-General Sir Charles James Napier, Էջ 1 The Conquest of Scinde: With Some Introductory Passages in the Life of Major-General Sir Charles James Napier, William Francis Patrick Napier |
| Հեղինակ | William Francis Patrick Napier |
| Edition | 2 |
| Հրատարակիչ | T. & W. Boone, 1845 |
| Original from | Օքսֆորդի համալսարան |
| Digitized | 13 Նոյեմբեր 2007 |
| Length | 531 էջ |
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