Hindustan Under Free Lances, 1770-1820: Sketches of Military Adventure in Hindustan During the Period Immediately Preceding British OccupationBrown, Langham & Company, 1907 - 238 strani |
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administration adventurer Agra Aligurh Ambaji Anarchy army attempt battalions battle Begum Sombre Bellasis Bengal Boigne Boigne's Bourquin brigade Calcutta camp campaign Captain cavalry century CHAPTER charge Colonel command Daulat Rao Sindhia death Deccan Dehli deserted District Drenec Durbar Emperor enemy engaged European officers followed force fortune French officers Gardner garrison George Thomas Gohad Government Governor-General guns Gurkha Gwalior Haidarabad Hánsi Hessing Hindu Hindustan Holkar honour horse horsemen Imperial India infantry Ismail Beg Jaipur Khan Lake land leader letter Levassoult Lord Lucknow Maratha marched Mathra Médoc Michel Raymond military Moghal Empire Moira Muslim Najaf native Nawab Ochterlony palace peace Perron Persian Peshwa Pindaris Pondichéri Poona Prince Provinces Punjab Raja Rajputs regular Reinhardt retired returned Rohila ruler Sardhana Savoyard sent sepoys Shah siege Sikhs Sindhia Singh Skinner soldiers success Sutherland took town troops Tukaji Holkar Ujain Wellesley
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Stran 157 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Stran 24 - ... work with as much bodily labour as if he had his bread to earn by it. As an architect — and he is everything — he has built himself at Lucknow a strong, elegant house.
Stran 184 - ... yoke of their own bloodthirsty tyrants, and would return to all the horrors of barbarism. In reality, the English have been the saviours of India. They put an end to the reign of brigandage, and replaced it by one of justice and order.
Stran 88 - I had resolved to establish an independency, I employed workmen and artificers of all kinds, and I now judged that nothing but force of arms could maintain me in my authority. I therefore increased their numbers, cast my own artillery, commenced making muskets, matchlocks, and powder, and, in short, made the best preparations for carrying on an offensive and defensive war...
Stran 54 - I have seen him daily and monthly rising with the sun, to survey his factories, review his troops, enlist recruits, direct the vast movements of three brigades (providing for their equipment , and supplies), harangue in Durbar, give audience to envoys, administer justice, regulate the civil and revenue affairs, hear letters from different parts,, and dictate replies, carry on an intricate diplomatic system, superintend his private trade, examine accounts, direct and move forward a most complex machine.
Stran 88 - I established my capital, rebuilt the walls of the city long since fallen into decay, and repaired the fortifications. As it had been long deserted, at first I found difficulty in procHring inhabitants, but by degrees and gentle treatment, I selected between five and six thousand persons, to whom I allowed every lawful indulgence.
Stran 165 - captious bickerings" which were going on all round ; and considered that " a rational jealousy of our power was not likely to excite half the intrigues against us which must naturally be produced by the wanton provocations which we have been giving on trivial subjects to all the States around." No sooner would the Company's forces engage with a capable enemy than these hostile elements would begin to combine. So argued the new ruler ; and not unreasonably, if the particular anticipations of this...
Stran 169 - Henceforward it became the universal principle of public policy that every State in India (outside the Punjab and Sinde) should make over the control of its foreign relations to the British government, should submit all external disputes to British arbitration, and should defer to British advice regarding internal management so far as might be necessary to cure disorders or scandalous misrule.
Stran 178 - War. A native cited by Dow speaks of " every species of domestic confusion. Villainy," he adds, "was practised in all its forms ; law and religion were trodden under foot ; the bonds of private friendship and connection, as well as of society and Government, were broken ; every individual, as if in a forest of wild beasts, could rely upon nothing but the strength of his own arm.
Stran 35 - For, oh, if there be an elysium on earth, It is this, it is this ! There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are link'd in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die ; One hour of a passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss : And...