A great country's little wars; or, England, Affghanistan and Sinde1844 - 303 pages |
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Affghan Affghanistan Ali Moorad Ameers of Sinde Ameers of Upper appears army attack Beloochees Bhawulpore Blue Book Bolan Pass Bombay British Government brother Cabool camp Candahar Captain Burnes cession chief chieftains Colonel Pottinger conduct course demand despatch dominion Dost Mahomed doubt Edinburgh Review enemy England English feelings force ghans Ghuznee Governor-general Herat hostile Hyderabad Indian Government Indus injustice intrigues justice Khelât Khyrpore letter Lieutenant Eyre Lord Auckland Lord Ellenborough Lower Sinde Mahomed Akbar Mahomed Khan Major Outram Meeanee Meer Nusseer Khan Meer Roostum Mehrab Khan ment Moorad Murrees nation never Noor Mahomed object Octavo opinion party pass penalty perhaps Persia Peshawur political position prisoners protection Punjaub question respecting Reviewer revised treaty Roostum Khan rulers Runjeet Singh Seikhs Shah Soojah Sir Alexander Burnes Sir Charles Napier Sir Robert Peel Sukkur Supplementary Correspondence territory tion tribes tribute troops Turban unjust Upper Sinde words wrong
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Page 30 - Governor-general could not, consistently with justice and his regard for the friendship of Maharajah Runjeet Sing, be the channel of submitting to the consideration of his Highness; that he avowed schemes of aggrandizement and ambition injurious to the security and peace of the frontiers of India...
Page 28 - The welfare of our possessions in the East requires that we should have on our western frontier an ally who is interested in resisting aggression, and establishing tranquillity, in the place of chiefs ranging themselves in subservience to a hostile power, and seeking to promote schemes of conquest and aggrandizement.
Page 30 - Highness; that he avowed schemes of aggrandizement and ambition injurious to the security and peace of the frontiers of India; and that he openly threatened, in furtherance of those schemes , to call in every foreign aid which he could command.
Page 196 - Here is another annoyance. Since the day that Sindh has been connected with the English there has always been something new ; your Government is never satisfied ; we are anxious for your friendship, but we cannot be continually persecuted. We have given a road to your troops through our territories, and now you wish to remain.
Page 91 - The Governor-General confidently hopes that the Shah will be speedily replaced on his throne by his own subjects and adherents ; and when once he shall be secured in power, and the independence and integrity of Afghanistan established, the British army will be withdrawn.
Page 305 - ON THE NATURE OF THUNDERSTORMS, And on the Means of Protecting Churches and other Buildings, and Shipping, against the Destructive Effects of Lightning. By W. SNOW HARRIS, FRS, &c.
Page 218 - On the day on which you shall be faithless to the British Government, sovereignty will have passed from you ; your dominions will be given to others ; and, in your destitution, all India will see that the British Government will not pardon an injury received from one it believes to be its friend.
Page 169 - Thus has victory placed at the disposal of the British Government the country on both banks of the Indus from Sukkur to the Sea...