Lives of Indian Officers: Illustrative of the History of the Civil and Military Services of India, Tom 1A. Strahan, 1867 |
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Strona x
... hope soon to be able to discharge what is both a trust con- fided to me by the departed hero , and a promise made to the loving ones whom he has left behind . PREFACE . xi Cornwallis , Metcalfe , Martyn , and X PREFACE .
... hope soon to be able to discharge what is both a trust con- fided to me by the departed hero , and a promise made to the loving ones whom he has left behind . PREFACE . xi Cornwallis , Metcalfe , Martyn , and X PREFACE .
Strona xi
... hope that the collection may be regarded in some sort as a Biographical History of India from the days of Cornwallis to the days of Canning . All the great wars which , during those momentous three - quarters of a century , have ...
... hope that the collection may be regarded in some sort as a Biographical History of India from the days of Cornwallis to the days of Canning . All the great wars which , during those momentous three - quarters of a century , have ...
Strona xii
... hope that it will be accepted as a not uninteresting contribution to a History of the great Indian Services - the Military and Civil Services of the East India Company . Those Services are now extinct . I have striven to show what they ...
... hope that it will be accepted as a not uninteresting contribution to a History of the great Indian Services - the Military and Civil Services of the East India Company . Those Services are now extinct . I have striven to show what they ...
Strona 12
... hope , until her health gave way beneath the unceasing weight of her sorrow , and she said that she was dying of a broken heart . In this piteous state , a strange fancy seized her . She desired that a thorn - tree might be planted over ...
... hope , until her health gave way beneath the unceasing weight of her sorrow , and she said that she was dying of a broken heart . In this piteous state , a strange fancy seized her . She desired that a thorn - tree might be planted over ...
Strona 13
... hope of her recovery had gone . It was now too late even for his presence to save . She survived her husband's return for two months , and then passed away to her rest . † Then a great change descended upon the character , and in ...
... hope of her recovery had gone . It was now too late even for his presence to save . She survived her husband's return for two months , and then passed away to her rest . † Then a great change descended upon the character , and in ...
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affairs afterwards appear appointed army arrival Badjee Barlow Bengal Bombay British Government Calcutta camp career character Charles Metcalfe chief civil Colonel command conduct Council Court of Directors delight doubt duty East India Company effect Elphinstone endeavour enemy England English European favour feeling French friends Governor Governor-General happiness heart Henry Martyn honour hope Hyderabad interests King King's letter Lord Cornwallis Lord Minto Lord Wellesley Lord William Bentinck Lordship Madras Mahratta Medows Memoir ment Metcalfe's military mind Ministers mission Mountstuart Mountstuart Elphinstone Mysore native never opinion peace Peishwah Persian political Poonah present racter Rajah received regiment Residency respect return to England Scindiah sent Seringapatam settlement Sindh Sir Charles Metcalfe Sir George Barlow Sir John Malcolm soldier soon success things thought tion Tippoo troops whilst wish write wrote young
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