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Afghan Akbar annexation army arrived artillery attack battle Bengal Bombay Brahmins British force British troops Burmese Cabul Calcutta Captain captured Carnatic cavalry Cawnpore chief Christian Church Clive Colonel commanded death Deckan Delhi Dost Mohammed eight emperor enemy enemy's English entrenchments European fell fifty fire fought four hundred French Ghoorkas governor Governor-general guns hands Hastings Havelock Hindu Holkar honour horse Hyder India infantry Jellalabad killed lacs of rupees Lahore latter leaders Lieutenant Lord Cornwallis Lord Dalhousie Lord Gough Lord Wellesley Lucknow Madras Mahratta Mangalore Marshman Meer ment miles Mission missionaries Mohammedan mutiny Mysore nabob native nizam officers Oude Outram peace Peshawur peshwa Pindāris plunder position Punjab rāja Rangoon reached refused regiment Runjeet Scinde Scindia sent sepoys Shah Soojah Shere Sing siege Sikhs Sir John Sir John Shore soldiers strong surrender taken territory thousand three hundred Tippu took town treaty twenty victory wounded
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Page 138 - Council is of opinion that the great object of the British Government ought to be the promotion of European literature and science among the natives of India; and that all the funds appropriated for the purpose of education would be best employed on English education alone.
Page 207 - The result of our deliberation is, that, concurring with you in opinion, we are fully satisfied that, by the general law and custom of India, a dependent principality, like that of Satara, cannot pass to an adopted heir without the consent of the Paramount Power ; that we are under no pledge, direct or constructive, to give such consent ; and that the general interests committed to our charge are best consulted by withholding it.
Page 183 - The resistance met was wholly unexpected, and all started with astonishment. Guns were dismounted, and their ammunition was blown into the air ; squadrons were checked in mid career ; battalion after battalion was hurled back with shattered ranks, and it was not until after sunset that portions of the enemy's position were finally carried.
Page 187 - The parapets were sprinkled with blood from end to end ; the trenches were filled with the dead and the dying. Amid the deafening roar of cannon, and the multitudinous fire of musketry, the shouts of triumph or of scorn were yet heard, and the flashing of innumerable swords was yet visible ; or from time to time exploding magazines of powder threw bursting shells and beams of wood and banks of earth high above the agitated sea of smoke and flame which enveloped the host of combatants, and for a moment...
Page 187 - ... remembered his vow ; he clothed himself in simple white attire, as one devoted to death, and calling on all around him to fight for the Gooroo, who had promised everlasting bliss to the brave, he repeatedly rallied his shattered ranks, and at last fell a martyr on a heap of his slain countrymen. Others might be seen standing on the ramparts amid showers of balls, waving defiance, with their swords, or telling the gunners where the fair-haired English pressed thickest together. Along the stronger...
Page 183 - Guns were dismounted, and their ammunition was blown into the air; squadrons were checked in mid- career; battalion after battalion was hurled back with shattered ranks, and it was not until after sunset that portions of the enemy's position were finally carried. Darkness, and the obstinacy of the contest, threw the English into confusion ; men of all regiments and arms were mixed together ; generals were doubtful of the fact or of the extent of their own success, and colonels knew not what had become...
Page 138 - We are a board for wasting public money, for printing books which are of less value than the paper on which they are printed was while it was blank; for giving artificial encouragement to absurd history, absurd metaphysics, absurd physics, absurd theology...
Page 163 - Kelati-Ghilzye, and Candahar ; to the security of our troops now in the field from all unnecessary risk ; and, finally, to the re-establishment of our military reputation by the infliction of some signal and decisive blow upon the Afghans...
Page 143 - This monument was erected by men who, differing from each other in race, in manners, in language, and in religion, cherish with equal veneration and gratitude the memory of his wise, upright, and paternal administration.
Page 65 - William, without the express authority and concord of the Court of Directors, or of the Secret Committee, either to declare or commence hostilities, or to enter into any treaty for making war against any of the native princes or states...