Fifty-Seven: Some Account of the Administration in Indian Districts During the Revolt of the Bengal Army |
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... cause , and little reason , perhaps , to love it but what they might find in hard work , bad pay , and precarious promotion ; even precarious tenure of office . Many of these men did good work . It is my earnest hope that something has ...
... cause , and little reason , perhaps , to love it but what they might find in hard work , bad pay , and precarious promotion ; even precarious tenure of office . Many of these men did good work . It is my earnest hope that something has ...
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... caused by the mutiny of the Bengal army , had been at all educated , they would have known that England had other soldiers who would soon appear on the scene , and that such outbreaks as theirs must , in any case , end badly for ...
... caused by the mutiny of the Bengal army , had been at all educated , they would have known that England had other soldiers who would soon appear on the scene , and that such outbreaks as theirs must , in any case , end badly for ...
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... caused to be taken from the Jumna ) . About the date of Aurangzeb's death the Sikhs invaded it in the pursuance of their first audacious rising . They were for the time expelled and punished ; and Musalmán influence revived , though ...
... caused to be taken from the Jumna ) . About the date of Aurangzeb's death the Sikhs invaded it in the pursuance of their first audacious rising . They were for the time expelled and punished ; and Musalmán influence revived , though ...
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... caused the chief inconvenience and difficulty of the Dun was the question of the supplies . A castle twelve miles broad and sixty miles long , with the rear open to the whole glacier - crowned Oberland of the Indo - Thibetan chain ...
... caused the chief inconvenience and difficulty of the Dun was the question of the supplies . A castle twelve miles broad and sixty miles long , with the rear open to the whole glacier - crowned Oberland of the Indo - Thibetan chain ...
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... causes of their desertion , after so long remaining faithful , it can hardly be doubtful that their departure was felt as a sensible relief by the Europeans . The Bengal cavalry , under Wyld , had also been drawn off across the Jumna ...
... causes of their desertion , after so long remaining faithful , it can hardly be doubtful that their departure was felt as a sensible relief by the Europeans . The Bengal cavalry , under Wyld , had also been drawn off across the Jumna ...
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administration afterwards Agra Aligarh Allahabad army ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY attack Azamgarh Banda Bareilly Benares Bengal Bookseller at Home British Bulandshahr Calcutta Captain Cavalry Cawnpore charge chief town Christian civil officers Colonel command Commissioner Crown 8vo Dehli Demy 8vo district Dunlop Edition Empire enemy English Etáwa European faithful Fcap force Frederick Roberts Ganges Gházipur Government Gujars guns Gurkhas Gwalior H.H. the Maharaja Hindu Home and Abroad horse Illustrated India interest Jats Jaunpur Jumna Kalpi Kantzow Kattra Khán killed Lamaism Lieutenant magistrate Mainpuri Malleson Maps marched Meerut Messrs miles military Mughal Empire Muhammadan murdered Muslim mutiny Muttra Muzafarnagar Nána narrative Native Infantry native officer Oude outbreak party Peshwa plunder police population Portuguese present Rája reader rebels record Reduced Prices apply regiment remained restored revenue Saharanpur Sapte sepoys Sikhs Singh soon Spankie species station tion took troopers troops village volume Wilson writes
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