Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 186William Blackwood, 1909 - England |
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... force . On the 10th of December 1838 Neville Chamberlain , with his regi- ment , the 16th Bengal Infantry , started from Ferozepore a light- hearted , high - spirited boy , on the long march to the North- West . Just four years elapsed ...
... force . On the 10th of December 1838 Neville Chamberlain , with his regi- ment , the 16th Bengal Infantry , started from Ferozepore a light- hearted , high - spirited boy , on the long march to the North- West . Just four years elapsed ...
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... force there , the murder of the Envoy , the retreat of Elphinstone's brigade and its complete annihilation in the terrible passes of Khurd - Kabul , Haft Kotal , and Jagdallak . But in these events Chamber- lain , fortunately for him ...
... force there , the murder of the Envoy , the retreat of Elphinstone's brigade and its complete annihilation in the terrible passes of Khurd - Kabul , Haft Kotal , and Jagdallak . But in these events Chamber- lain , fortunately for him ...
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... force both the fierceness of the encounters de- scribed and the cool gallantry of the narrator . Thus on March 25 , 1842 , he writes of a fight outside Kandahar- " You may suppose that it was no child's play when I tell you that both my ...
... force both the fierceness of the encounters de- scribed and the cool gallantry of the narrator . Thus on March 25 , 1842 , he writes of a fight outside Kandahar- " You may suppose that it was no child's play when I tell you that both my ...
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... Force , and this appointment he retained until he left India at the close of his last campaign in 1864 . we have not space here to age . The training which he write in detail , and it must suffice to say ( in his own modest language ) ...
... Force , and this appointment he retained until he left India at the close of his last campaign in 1864 . we have not space here to age . The training which he write in detail , and it must suffice to say ( in his own modest language ) ...
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... Force . After the 1849 , Chamberlain wrote- capture of Lucknow the Pun- jabi troops openly boasted that they had reconquered Hindu- stan for us . As Sir John Lawrence wrote to Lord Stanley , " It is not in human nature that they should ...
... Force . After the 1849 , Chamberlain wrote- capture of Lucknow the Pun- jabi troops openly boasted that they had reconquered Hindu- stan for us . As Sir John Lawrence wrote to Lord Stanley , " It is not in human nature that they should ...
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