Memoirs of Major-General Sir Henry Havelock, K.C.B. |
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... Indian affairs can safely dispense with or honestly ignore . It is the moral history of North India , and of the Indian Government , illustrated by and interwoven with a strange tale of enter- prise , almost incredible mental prodigies ...
... Indian affairs can safely dispense with or honestly ignore . It is the moral history of North India , and of the Indian Government , illustrated by and interwoven with a strange tale of enter- prise , almost incredible mental prodigies ...
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... India . Akbar Khan approaches Jellalabad . - The Earthquake of the 19th of February . Destruction and Restoration of the Works . General Pollock's Approach delayed . Exhausted state of the Garrison . - Havelock advises an Attack on ...
... India . Akbar Khan approaches Jellalabad . - The Earthquake of the 19th of February . Destruction and Restoration of the Works . General Pollock's Approach delayed . Exhausted state of the Garrison . - Havelock advises an Attack on ...
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... India . - - He prepares for the Bar . Enters the Army , ― His Religious Exercises during the Voyage . Is engaged in the first Burmese War , and is deputed to Ava . Appointed Adjutant of the Depôt at Chinsurah . - Publishes his Cam ...
... India . - - He prepares for the Bar . Enters the Army , ― His Religious Exercises during the Voyage . Is engaged in the first Burmese War , and is deputed to Ava . Appointed Adjutant of the Depôt at Chinsurah . - Publishes his Cam ...
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... India , he often entertained his friends at Serampore by fighting over again , when the cloth was re- moved , the most memorable battles of Marlborough and Wellington , of Frederic the Second and Napoleon , calling up from his tenacious ...
... India , he often entertained his friends at Serampore by fighting over again , when the cloth was re- moved , the most memorable battles of Marlborough and Wellington , of Frederic the Second and Napoleon , calling up from his tenacious ...
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... India . During the eight years of his military life in England , he was stationed sometimes in Ireland and occasionally in Scotland , and appears to have been present at what he facetiously termed the battle of Glasgow Green , in the ...
... India . During the eight years of his military life in England , he was stationed sometimes in Ireland and occasionally in Scotland , and appears to have been present at what he facetiously termed the battle of Glasgow Green , in the ...
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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.