Memoirs and Corresponence of Major-General Sir William Nott ...: Edited, at the Request of Sir Williams Nott's Daughters, Letitia Nott and Charklitte Bower, from Documents in Ther Exclusive Possession, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1854 - Afghan Wars |
Other editions - View all
Memoirs and Corresponence of Major-General Sir William Nott ..., Volume 2 William Nott No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
adjutant Affghanistan Affghans Allahabad Amanee Amil appointed arms army arrival Artillery Bala Hissar Barrackpore Bolan Pass Brevet brigade British Government Cabool camp Candahar Captain Carmarthen Carriage containing Caubul cavalry Chiefs citadel Colonel commanding officer companies corps Court DEAR despatch detachment districts Dooranees duty enemy England Envoy European feel Ferozepore fire force gallant garrison Ghuzni Governor guard guns Gwalior havildars hills honour horse India Indus interest Jellallabad Kelat Khan Khelat-i-Ghilzie Khyber Pass King Kojuck letter Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Ellenborough Lordship Lucknow Maha Raja Mahomed Majesty Majesty's Major-General Nott Major-General Pollock ment miles military months morning native commissioned never non-commissioned officers Nott's Oude party Pass person Peshawur political possession present Prince Timour Quettah Rawlinson received Regiment render respect retire river rupees Scinde sent sepoys Shah Sir William Nott soldiers Sukkur Sutlej tion town troops valley villages vols
Popular passages
Page 12 - Publications, either immediately relating to the Army or Navy, or involving subjects of utility or interest to the members of either, full Reports of Trials by Courts Martial, Distribution of the Army and Navy, General Orders, Circulars, Promotions, Appointments, Births, Marriages, Obituary, etc., with all the Naval and Military Intelligence of the month.
Page 6 - Eminent in every mode of literature, Dr. Croly stands, in our judgment, first among the living poets of Great Britain — the only man of our day entitled by his power to venture within the sacred circle of religious poets.
Page 7 - Sunday Times. SPAIN AS IT IS. BY GA HOSKINS, ESQ. 2 vols. post 8vo. 21s. '* To the tourist this work will prove invaluable. It is the most complete and interesting portraiture of Spain that has ever come under our notice.
Page 14 - A most valuable and entertaining work. There is certainly no lady of our day who has devoted her pen to so beneficial a purpose as Miss Strickland. Nor is there any other whose works possess a deeper or more enduring interest. Miss Strickland is to our mind the first literary lady of the age.
Page 446 - ... by every one. The professional man will find in it the career of one of the most illustrious professors of medicine of our own or of any other age — the student of intellectual science the progress of a truly profound philosopher — and all, the lesson afforded by a good man's life. Abernethy's memory is worthy of a good biographer, and happily it has found one.
Page 13 - ... facts. Their sayings, their doings, their manners, their costume, will be found faithfully chronicled in this work, which also includes the most interesting of their letters. The hope that the ' Lives of the Queens of England ' might be regarded as a national work, honourable to the female character, and generally useful to society, has encouraged us to the completion of the task.
Page 16 - Now ready, in 1 vol. (comprising as much matter as twenty ordinary volumes), 38s. bound. The following is a List of the Principal Contents of this Standard Work: — I. A full and interesting history of each order of the English Nobility, showing its origin, rise, titles, immunities, privileges, &c.
Page 2 - TRAVELS IN EUROPEAN TURKEY: THROUGH BOSNIA, SERVIA, BULGARIA, MACEDONIA, ROUMELIA, ALBANIA, AND EPIRUS ; WITH A VISIT TO GREECE AND THE IONIAN ISLES, and a HOMEWARD TOUR THROUGH HUNGARY AND THE ScLAVONIAN PROVINCES OF AUSTRIA ON THE LOWER DANUBE. By EDMUND SPENCER, Esa. Author of " Travels in Circassia,
Page 443 - Biographical and Critical Essays, reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections. By A. Hay ward, QC Second Series, 2 vols. 8vo. 28s. Third Series, I vol. 8vo. 14r. The Life of Isambard Kingdom Brunei, Civil Engineer. By I. Brunei, BCL With Portrait, Plates, and Woodcuts.
Page 15 - ... which we retired as solemn as that which accompanied our advance ; and we should retire as a conquering, not as a defeated power; but we cannot sanction the occupation of an advanced position beyond the Khyber Pass by Major-General Pollock, unless that General should be satisfied that he can, — without depending upon the forbearance of the tribes near the Pass, which, obtained only by purchase, must, under all circumstances, be precarious, and without depending upon the fidelity of the...