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Page 356 - There is a spirit of resistance implanted by the Deity in the breast of man proportioned to the size of the wrongs he is destined to endure.
Page 115 - Report of his march . . . that villages have been destroyed by the troops. I desire to know why a proceeding at variance with humanity, and contrary to the usages of civilised warfare, came to be adopted. I disapprove of such cruelties, so unmilitary, and so injurious to the discipline and honour of the Army.
Page 79 - Scinde : put this in contrast with the daily calls for troops to put down outhreaks in the other parts of India. " There are blood feuds between tribes put down completely, which, before we took Scinde, caused an average of between two and three hundred murders annually. " There is public morality supported, by putting down the infamous beasts who, dressed as women, plied their trade in the Meers...
Page 12 - Company consider mutiny as one' of the greatest, if not the greatest danger threatening India, — a danger also that may come unexpectedly, and, if the first symptoms be not carefully treated, with a power to shake Leadenhall.
Page 151 - Sepoys' rations, having been duly submitted to the Most Noble the Governor-General of India in Council, I am now directed to acquaint you, for the information of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, that His Lordship in Council entirely concurs in the opinion expressed in para. 9 of my letter to yonr address of the 14th February above referred to, and views" with regret and dissatisfaction the orders which the Commander-in-Chief intimates he has issued to the officers in the Punjaub.
Page 436 - Scinde to Kurrachee, and thence onwards to the Portuguese ports of Diu and Demaun. That route was now closed, and it was reasonably expected that an advance might be made in the charge of passes, without risk of loss to the revenue from a diminished demand for them. The rate was accordingly increased, in October, 1843, from Rs.
Page 238 - Hills the Bengal Infantry behaved well under severe trials ; in the Kohat Pass native officers and non-commissioned officers bravely led their men up against the Afreedis. Where have they behaved else, when properly drilled and led ? It is said that in mutinies, age has abated the officers...
Page 114 - Report that villages had been destroyed. I cannot think he did this, but being resolved to know whose doing it was I send you an official memorandum through the Adjutant-General. What! British troops destroying villages and leaving poor women and young children to perish? I can hardly believe this, but will take good care it never happens again under my command. ... I hope it has been the work of the politicians, not the soldiers.
Page 184 - ... February, 1850. Lord Dalhousie was not taken by surprise. Writing to Sir Charles Napier, he had declared himself " prepared for discontent among the Native troops, on coming into the Punjab under diminished allowances ; and well satisfied to have got so far through without violence." "The sepoy," he added, "has been over-petted and overpaid of late, and has been led on, by the government itself, into the entertainment of an expectation, and the manifestation of a feeling, which he never held...
Page 392 - It was said Lord Hardinge objected to assembling the Indian troops, for fear they should conspire. This reason I cannot accede to, and have never met an Indian officer who did accede to it ; and few men have had more opportunities of judging the armies of all these presidencies than myself.