Historical and Descriptive Account of British India from the Most Remote Period to the Present Time ...Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1855 - Great Britain |
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Page 53
... sacrifices ; offer- ing to cede the frontier district of Baramahl , and to pay ten lacks of rupees for the expenses of the war ; but the presidency , still buoyed up with hopes of conquest , made such enormous demands , both of money ...
... sacrifices ; offer- ing to cede the frontier district of Baramahl , and to pay ten lacks of rupees for the expenses of the war ; but the presidency , still buoyed up with hopes of conquest , made such enormous demands , both of money ...
Page 93
... sacrifice of all the battering - train and heavy equipments with which he was to have besieged Seringapatam . He was obliged also to stop the progress of another expedition which was advancing to his sup- port . Although Madras was the ...
... sacrifice of all the battering - train and heavy equipments with which he was to have besieged Seringapatam . He was obliged also to stop the progress of another expedition which was advancing to his sup- port . Although Madras was the ...
Page 94
... sacrifice of all the heavy artillery . As his lordship was retiring , in a most shattered condi- tion , upon Bangalore , the strength of the men sinking from want of food , and the sick being with the utmost difficulty dragged along ...
... sacrifice of all the heavy artillery . As his lordship was retiring , in a most shattered condi- tion , upon Bangalore , the strength of the men sinking from want of food , and the sick being with the utmost difficulty dragged along ...
Page 97
... sacrifice all the grand objects of the confederacy . Captain Little , who , with a corps of about a thousand men , had been attached to the army of the Bhow , was obliged to second him in all these irregular pursuits ; the most ardu ...
... sacrifice all the grand objects of the confederacy . Captain Little , who , with a corps of about a thousand men , had been attached to the army of the Bhow , was obliged to second him in all these irregular pursuits ; the most ardu ...
Page 118
... sacrifices . He wrote , referring to the letters of the governor - general , and proposing a conference of ambassadors . General Harris , in reply , after taking a view of recent events , an- nounced , as the positive ultimatum , the ...
... sacrifices . He wrote , referring to the letters of the governor - general , and proposing a conference of ambassadors . General Harris , in reply , after taking a view of recent events , an- nounced , as the positive ultimatum , the ...
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