Memoirs of Major-General Sir Henry Havelock, K.C.B. |
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... British Government The first Bur- in India had been at peace for five years . Lord Hastings , notwithstanding the magnitude of his military ex- peditions in Nepal and Central India , had bequeathed an overflowing treasury to his ...
... British Government The first Bur- in India had been at peace for five years . Lord Hastings , notwithstanding the magnitude of his military ex- peditions in Nepal and Central India , had bequeathed an overflowing treasury to his ...
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... British dominions , and had become , in fact , what it had ever been in right , a province of the Golden King . " There were also acts of positive aggression the seizure of an island belonging to us on the Aracan coast , and the capture ...
... British dominions , and had become , in fact , what it had ever been in right , a province of the Golden King . " There were also acts of positive aggression the seizure of an island belonging to us on the Aracan coast , and the capture ...
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... British bayonet . As he pushed on , sabre in hand , three balls struck him on the side , and at the same moment a Burmese speared him in the back . Dennie tells me he found him expiring , his sabre yet clenched in his hand , fallen and ...
... British bayonet . As he pushed on , sabre in hand , three balls struck him on the side , and at the same moment a Burmese speared him in the back . Dennie tells me he found him expiring , his sabre yet clenched in his hand , fallen and ...
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... British supremacy in the East ; the periplus of all the peninsula , and the ancient island of Serendib ( Ceylon ) , as it is called in the Arabian fictions ; a sight of the greater ghauts of Malabar , the Indian Apennines , the finest ...
... British supremacy in the East ; the periplus of all the peninsula , and the ancient island of Serendib ( Ceylon ) , as it is called in the Arabian fictions ; a sight of the greater ghauts of Malabar , the Indian Apennines , the finest ...
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... British camp , in company with his own plenipotentiaries , to negotiate a treaty , which was at length completed and signed . But it soon became apparent that , with the usual duplicity of Asiatic monarchs , he had entered upon these ...
... British camp , in company with his own plenipotentiaries , to negotiate a treaty , which was at length completed and signed . But it soon became apparent that , with the usual duplicity of Asiatic monarchs , he had entered upon these ...
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Page 100 - God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea ; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.