 India during the last century, may be gathered from the following facts. It signified not merely a host of twenty to a hundred thousand barbarians on the march, paying for nothing, and eating up every town, and cottage, and farmyard ; burning and slaughtering...  A History of India - Page 219by August Friedrich Rudolf Hoernle, Herbert Alick Stark - 1906 - 256 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wilson Hunter - Great Britain - 1881 - 160 pages
...nothing, and eating up every town, and cottage, and farmyard ; burning and slaughtering on the slightest provocation, and often in mere sport. It usually also...and massacre at the capital of the invaded country. Here is the account of the fate of Delhi in the first of the six invasions in the middle of the last... | |
 | John Murdoch - India - 1886 - 164 pages
...nothing, and eating up every town, and cottage, and farmyard; burning and slaughtering on the slightest provocation, and often in mere sport. It usually also...and massacre at the capital of the invaded country. " On this first of the six invasions, 8000* men, women, and children were hacked to pieces in one forenoon... | |
 | Brahma-samaj - 1889 - 854 pages
...nothing, and eating up every town, and cottage, and farmyard ; burning and slaughtering on the slightest provocation, and often in mere sport. It usually also...and massacre at the capital of the invaded country. The plan of the Russian general Skobeloff for the invasion of India was as follows : — " It would... | |
 | India - 1902 - 196 pages
...nothing,- and eating up every town, and cottage, and farmyard ; burning and slaughtering on the slightest provocation, and often in mere sport. It usually also...and massacre at the capital of the invaded country." Tennyson thus refers to TamerlSne, or Timur : — ^ " Ages after, while in Asia, he that led the wild... | |
 | Henry Codman Potter - East Asia - 1902 - 212 pages
...nothing and eating up every town and cottage and farm-yard; burning and slaughtering on the slightest provocation, and often in mere sport. It usually also...and massacre at the capital of the invaded country. And besides these wars from without were the intestine conflicts in which Hindu fought with Hindu,... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - Great Britain - 1908 - 310 pages
...nothing, and eating up every town, and cottage, and farmyard ; burning and slaughtering on the slightest provocation, and often in mere sport. It usually also...and massacre at the capital of the invaded country. Here is the account of the fate of Delhi in the first of the six invasions in the middle of the last... | |
 | Charles Edward Woodruff - Ethnic groups - 1909 - 514 pages
...nothing and eating up every town and cottage and farm-yard; burning and slaughtering on the slightest provocation, and often in mere sport. It usually also...and massacre at the capital of the invaded country. And besides these wars from without were the intestine conflicts in which Hindu fought with Hindu,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1887 - 988 pages
...nothing, and eating up every town, and cottage, and farmyard ; burning and slaughtering on the slightest provocation, and often in mere sport. It usually also...and massacre at the capital of the invaded country. On the first of the six invasions, eight thousand* men, women, and children were hacked to pieces in... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1901 - 992 pages
...nothing and eating up every town and cottage and farm-yard; burning and slaughtering on the slightest provocation, and often in mere sport. It usually also...and massacre at the capital of the invaded country. And besides these wars from without were the intestine conflicts in which Hindu fought with Hindu,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1880 - 800 pages
...from Persia who slaughtered Afghan and Indian alike ; the last five were regular Afghan invasions. in mere sport. It usually also meant a grand final...and massacre at the capital of the invaded country. Here is the account of the fate of Delhi in the first of the six invasions in the middle of the last... | |
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