Sepoy Generals, Wellington to RobertsW. Blackwood, 1901 - 478 من الصفحات |
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advance Afghans appointed army arrived Assaye attack Baird battalion battery Bengal Bloemfontein body Boers Bombay British Buller Bunnu camp campaign Captain cavalry chief Colonel Wellesley column command Commander-in-Chief corps crossed Delhi Despatches detachment Division Donald Stewart Duke of Wellington Edwardes enemy enemy's England expedition February fell Field-Marshal Lord Roberts fight fire flank force Forrest Fort St George forward Frederick Roberts French front frontier gallant Government Governor Governor-General ground guns Highlanders hills honour Horse Artillery Ian Hamilton India Jacob Kabul kopje Kroonstad letter Lieutenant Lockhart Lord Mornington Lord Roberts Madras Mahratta ment miles military Modder morning mountain Mounted Infantry moved Munro mutiny Mysore native night officers passed Peshawar Peshwa Poona position Pretoria Punjab railway reached received Redvers Buller regiment returned ridge river road sent sepoys Seringapatam Sikh Sir Colin soldier tion Tippoo treaty troops victory village wounded writes wrote
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الصفحة 240 - The improvement of the character of a people, and the keeping them at the same time in the lowest state of dependence on foreign rulers to which they can be reduced by conquest, are matters quite incompatible with each other. There can be no hope of any great zeal for improvement, when the highest acquirements can lead to nothing beyond some petty office, and can confer neither wealth nor honour.
الصفحة 134 - Suddenly I heard the gallop of horses, and turning saw Moore. He came at speed, and pulled up so sharp and close he seemed to have alighted from the air...
الصفحة 134 - ... thus bending the General forward almost to its neck, but his head was thrown back and his look more keenly piercing than I ever before saw it. He glanced to the right and left, and then fixed his eyes intently on the enemy's advancing column, at the same time grasping the reins with both his hands, and pressing the horse firmly with his knees ; his body thus seemed to deal with the animal while his mind was intent on the enemy, and his aspect was one of searching intenseness beyond the power...
الصفحة 104 - I would sacrifice Gwalior, or every frontier of India, ten times over, in order to preserve our credit for scrupulous good faith, and the advantages and honor we gained by the late war and the peace; and we must not fritter them away in arguments, drawn from overstrained principles of the laws of nations, which are not understood in this country. What brought me through many difficulties in the war, and the negotiations for peace ? The British good faith, and nothing else.
الصفحة 31 - I will order my battalions to be in readiness. " Upon looking at the Tope as I came in just now, it appeared to me that when you get possession of the bank of the nullah, you have the Tope as a matter of course, as the latter is on the rear of the former. However, you are the best judge, and I shall be ready. I am, my dear Sir, Your most faithful servant, ARTHUR WELLESLEY.
الصفحة 347 - Yea, fear thou the gods, Achilles, and have compassion on me, even me, bethinking thee of thy father. Lo, I am yet more piteous than he, and have braved what none other man on earth hath braved before, to stretch forth my hand toward the face of the slayer of my sons.
الصفحة 47 - Chinnoor, and was marching to the westward with the intention of passing between the Mahratta and Mogul cavalry and me. He drew up, however, in a very strong position as soon as he perceived me, and the victorious army stood for some time with apparent firmness.
الصفحة 319 - The Court of Ava having refused to make amends for the injuries and insults which British subjects had suffered at the hands of its servants, the GovernorGeneral of India in Council resolved to exact reparation by force of arms. The forts and cities upon the coast were forthwith attacked and captured; the...
الصفحة 138 - The picquets then appeared, being driven back, but firing so hard that our line loudly cheered them from the crest above: following fast came the enemy's columns, and eighty pieces of cannon opened with a roar from the summit of the mountain, sending shrapnels, shells and round shot down on them. The battle was thus begun, and soon they reached us. The firing rolled loud and heavy, the shouts of our men were grand, and their charges in different parts of the line went fiercely home.
الصفحة 246 - Baird and the column of assault were crossing the ford ; and immediately afterwards, we perceived our soldiers, in rather loose array, rushing towards the breach. The moment was one of agony; and we continued, with aching eyes, to watch the result, until, after a short and appalling interval, we saw the acclivity of the breach covered with a cloud of crimson...