The insult of eight hundred years is at last avenged. The gates of the temple of Somnauth, so long the memorial of your humiliation, are become the proudest record of your national glory; the proof of your superiority in arms over the nations beyond the... History of the War in Afghanistan - Page 640by Sir John William Kaye - 1851 - 240 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Franck Bright - Great Britain - 1889 - 634 pages
...song of triumph." "Brothers and friends," he said, "the insult of eight hundred years is at length avenged, the gates of the temple of Somnauth, so long...superiority in arms over the nations beyond the Indus." He did not see that in speaking of his friends and brothers he was addressing Mahomedans and Hindoos... | |
| Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1894 - 420 pages
...triumph from Afghanistan, and the despoiled tomb of Sultan Mahmoud looks upon the ruins of Ghuznee. The insult of eight hundred years is at last avenged....superiority in arms over the nations beyond the Indus." No words of pompous man could possibly have put together greater al isurdit ies. The brothers and friends... | |
| Henry Morris - Governors - 1896 - 186 pages
...insult of eight hundred years," he declared, " is at last avenged. The gates of the temple of Somnath, so long the memorial of your humiliation, are become the proudest record of your national glory." This, ridiculous proclamation was received by the Hindus with indifference and by the English with... | |
| Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1898 - 568 pages
...triumph from Afghanistan, and the despoiled tomb of Sultan Mahmoud looks upon the ruins of Ghuznee. The insult of eight hundred years is at last avenged....superiority in arms over the nations beyond the Indus." No words of pompous man could possibly have put together greater absurdities. The brothers and friends... | |
| Henry Smith Williams - World History - 1904 - 702 pages
...from Afghanistan, and the despoiled tomb of Sultan Muhammed [Mahmud] looks upon the ruins of Qhazni. The insult of eight hundred years is at last avenged. The gates of the temple of Somnath, so long the memorial of your humiliation, are become the proudest record of your national... | |
| Henry Smith Williams - World history - 1907 - 712 pages
...of Ghazni. The insult of eight hundred years is at last avenged. The gates of the temple of Somnath, so long the memorial of your humiliation, are become...nations beyond the Indus. To you, princes and chiefs of Sirnind, of Rajwarra, of Malwa, and of Guzerat, I shall commit this glorious trophy of successful war.... | |
| Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - Europe - 1907 - 734 pages
...1 See ante, p. 179. " "The insult of 800 years," he wrote in this rather theatrical proclamation, " is at last avenged. The gates of the temple of Somnauth,...become the proudest record of your national glory. . . . .You will yourselves, with all honour, transmit the gates of sandal-wood, through your respective... | |
| Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - Europe - 1907 - 552 pages
...ante, p. 142. 2 " The insult of 800 years," he wrote in this rather theatrical proclamation, "is a last avenged. The gates of the temple of Somnauth,...become the proudest record of your national glory. . . . You will yourselves, with all honour, transmit the gates of sandal-wood, through your respective... | |
| Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - Europe - 1907 - 736 pages
...in this rather theatrical proclamation, " is at last avenged. The gates of the temple of Soranauth, so long the memorial of your humiliation, are become the proudest record of your national glory. . . . You will yourselves, with all honour, transmit the gates of sandal-wood, through your respective... | |
| Maud Diver - Afghan Wars - 1913 - 734 pages
..."Proclamation of the Gates" that called upon a mixed audience of Mahomedans and Hindus to rejoice because "the insult of eight hundred years is at last avenged. The Gates of the Temple of Somnath so long the memorial of your humiliation, are become the proudest record of your national glory."... | |
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