 Jellalabad), should we not then have a more difficult game to play than Clive had at Plassey, or Wellington at Assaye ? We should then be literally striking for our existence, at the most inclement season of the year, with the prestige of our name...  Life of Sir Henry Lawrence - Page 441by Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, Herman Merivale - 1872Full view - About this book
 | McLeod Innes - India - 1895 - 430 pages
...any sane man doubt that twenty-four hours would swell the hundreds of rebels into thousands, and in a week every ploughshare in the Delhi States would...sword ? And when a sufficient force had been mustered, which would not be effected within a month, should we not then have a more difficult game to play than... | |
 | McLeod Innes - India - 1897 - 378 pages
...any sane man doubt that twentyfour hours would swell the hundreds of rebels into thousands, and in a week every ploughshare in the Delhi states would...sword ? And when a sufficient force had been mustered, which would not be effected within a month, should we not then have a more difficult game to play than... | |
 | McLeod Innes - India - 1897 - 380 pages
...any sane man doubt that twentyfour hours would swell the hundreds of rebels into thousands, and in a week every ploughshare in the Delhi states would...sword ? And when a sufficient force had been mustered, which would not be effected within a month, should we not then have a more difficult game to play than... | |
 | Earl Frederick Sleigh Roberts Roberts - India - 1897 - 586 pages
...any sane man doubt that twenty-four hours would swell the hundreds of rebels into thousands, and in a week every ploughshare in the Delhi States would...sword ? And when a sufficient force had been mustered, which could not be effected within a month, should we not then have a more difficult game to play than... | |
 | McLeod Innes - Colonial administrators - 1898 - 244 pages
...; let all this happen in Hindustan on June 2, instead of among the Afghan mountains on November 2, and does any sane man doubt that twentyfour hours...or in three at the rate we moved to the succour of Kandahar and Jalalabad), should we not then have a more difficult game to play than Olive had at Plassey,... | |
 | McLeod Innes - Colonial administrators - 1898 - 242 pages
...; let all this happen in Hindustan on June 2, instead of among the Afghan mountains on November 2, and does any sane man doubt that twentyfour hours...ploughshare in the Delhi States would be turned into a sword 1 And when a sufficient force had been mustered, by bringing European regiments from the hills and... | |
 | Sir George Forrest - India - 1904 - 594 pages
...any sane man doubt that twenty-four hours would swell the hundreds of rebels into thousands, and in a week every ploughshare in the Delhi States would...sword ? And when a sufficient force had been mustered, which would not be effected within a month, should we not then have a more difficult game to play than... | |
 | Frederick P. Gibbon - India - 1908 - 402 pages
...British were not prepared to deal without a moment's delay. " Does any sane man doubt," he asked, " that twenty-four hours would swell the hundreds of...ploughshare in the Delhi States would be turned into a sword ? . . . We should then be literally striking for our existence, at the most inclement season of the... | |
 | George Devereux Oswell - Great Britain - 1908 - 204 pages
...any sane man doubt that twenty-four hours would swell the hundreds of rebels into thousands, and in a week every ploughshare in the Delhi States would be turned into a_sword ? And when a sufficient force had been mustered, which could not have been effected within... | |
 | John Bonham - India - 1928 - 104 pages
...these, does any sane man believe that within a week every ploughshare in the Delhi States would not be turned into a sword, and when a sufficient force...mustered by bringing European regiments from the Hills (which could not be effected within a month), should we not then have a more difficult game to play... | |
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