 | Reginald Bosworth Smith - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 692
...inside. These seem to me very strong reasons for assaulting as soon as practicable. Every day's delay is fraught with danger. Every day disaffection and...against us. In the Punjab we are by no means strong. Peshawur is a political volcano which may explode any day. Out of three regiments of European infantry... | |
 | Lionel James Trotter - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...for those reinforcements from below, which the chief commissioner warned him not to expect for mond1s to come. If Delhi, urged Sir John Lawrence with perfect...Edwardes. they had 8,000 Hindustani troops to guard. The 51st Sepoys had just broken out at Peshawar. And if anything happened to Dost Muhammad, the Afghans... | |
 | Earl Frederick Sleigh Roberts Roberts - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 712
...Wilson : ' There seem to be very strong reasons for assaulting as soon as practicable. Every day's delay is fraught with danger. Every day disaffection and mutiny spread. Every day adds to the danger 01 TBJTnflative'jrince.B takinp against us.' But Wilson did not find it easy to make up his mind to... | |
 | Edward Gilliat - 1919 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...Colonel Baird Smith, Taylor, Nicholson and the rest. " Every day's delay," wrote Sir John Lawrence, " is fraught with danger. Every day disaffection and...against us. In the Punjab we are by no means strong." As the days passed, and fresh batteries began to pound the walls, and yet the assault was not delivered,... | |
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Every day's delay,' wrote Sir John, ' is fraught with danger. Every day disaffection and mutiny spread. Every day adds to the danger of the native princes taking part against us. In the Punjab we are by no means strong. 