 October issued a minute, in which 'the views and conduct of Dost Muhammad Khan were misrepresented with a hardihood which a Russian statesman might have envied'.1 Burnes was told that his job was merely to go ahead through the Amirs...  Life of Sir Henry Lawrence - Page 160by Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, Herman Merivale - 1873 - 627 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, Herman Merivale - Colonial administrators - 1872 - 522 pages
...India. Truly, if men will lean upon a broken reed, they must learn the pang of its running into their hand. On the 26th of June 1838, a tripartite treaty...garrison — the Heratees held out against the Shah of Persia, his army, and his Russian friends, for ten long months. A small military expedition sent... | |
 | Archibald Forbes - India - 1890 - 242 pages
...English language," and of which Sir Henry Ed wardes remarked that "the views and conduct of Dost Mahomed were misrepresented with a hardihood which a Russian statesman might have envied." The army intended for the invasion of Afghanistan, as originally constituted, was to consist of about... | |
 | Lionel James Trotter - Afghanistan - 1893 - 250 pages
...paper in which — to quote from Sir Herbert Edwardes — ' the views and conduct of Dost Muhammad Khan were misrepresented with a hardihood which a Russian statesman might have envied1.' The defence of our ' western frontier ' and the libels on Dost Muhammad were mixed together... | |
 | Engineers - 1900 - 312 pages
...language ; ' and of which Sir H. Edwardes remarked ' that ' the views and conduct of Dost Mohammed Khan were misrepresented with a hardihood which a Russian statesman might have envied.' Sir Henry Rawlinson, who made the subject of Herat the special study of a lifetime, and who is justly... | |
 | ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Khān (Amir of Afghanistan) - Afghanistan - 1900 - 350 pages
...language '; and Sir Henry Edwardes' not less trenchant comment that 'the views and conduct of Dost Mahomed were misrepresented with a hardihood which a Russian statesman might have envied. ' All men whose experience gave weight to their words opposed this preposterous enterprise.' Mr Elphinstone,... | |
 | Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - Great Britain - 1921 - 454 pages
...severe but not unmerited verdict of Sir Herbert Edwardes, ' the views and conduct of t)ost Muhammad Khan were misrepresented with a hardihood which a Russian statesman might have envied ' 33 8 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA CHAP. The history of the campaign must be briefly told. The '... | |
 | G. S. Chhabra - India - 2005 - 710 pages
...were in fact incorrect. Here, as Sir Herbert Edwardes wrote, ''the views and conduct of Dost Muhammad Khan were misrepresented with a hardihood which a Russian statesman might have envied." On the other hand, the estimate drawn of the capabilities of Shah Shuja was extremely exaggerated.... | |
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