Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 83William Blackwood, 1858 - England |
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Page 94
... India for a rebellion before which the mutinies of Vellore in 1806 , and of Barrackpore in 1824 , dwindle into political insignificance was but a few weeks old when the first mutter- ings of the approaching storm were heard in different ...
... India for a rebellion before which the mutinies of Vellore in 1806 , and of Barrackpore in 1824 , dwindle into political insignificance was but a few weeks old when the first mutter- ings of the approaching storm were heard in different ...
Page 95
... India and Scinde will also unite and take vengeance on that tribe [ the British ] for all the injuries which the Holy Faith has suffered from them , and will not withhold any sacrifice in the holy cause . " What form their vengeance was ...
... India and Scinde will also unite and take vengeance on that tribe [ the British ] for all the injuries which the Holy Faith has suffered from them , and will not withhold any sacrifice in the holy cause . " What form their vengeance was ...
Page 96
... India , 10th July 1833 . A naik is the lowest non - commissioned native officer in an infantry regiment , equivalent to our rank of " corporal . " The speech of one Major Bird , a pensioner of the Indian Government , and a paid agent of ...
... India , 10th July 1833 . A naik is the lowest non - commissioned native officer in an infantry regiment , equivalent to our rank of " corporal . " The speech of one Major Bird , a pensioner of the Indian Government , and a paid agent of ...
Page 97
... India ; but on Lahore they fell with portentous import . This vast city , the political capital of the Punjab , peopled by hereditary soldiers - Sikh and Mo- hammedan ; from the former of whom the spirit of the Singh Gooroo , and " the ...
... India ; but on Lahore they fell with portentous import . This vast city , the political capital of the Punjab , peopled by hereditary soldiers - Sikh and Mo- hammedan ; from the former of whom the spirit of the Singh Gooroo , and " the ...
Page 100
... India , a courage , not so much to face an enemy in the field , as to brave the censure of some secretariat pen twelve hundred miles off - a contempt for that bugbear of so many Indian offi- cials , the fear of responsibility ; for thus ...
... India , a courage , not so much to face an enemy in the field , as to brave the censure of some secretariat pen twelve hundred miles off - a contempt for that bugbear of so many Indian offi- cials , the fear of responsibility ; for thus ...
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