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Page 6
And it would be well to clear up at the same time the further disagreement
between the note at page 9 of Gleig , which says , • Lord Westmoreland's court
was remarkable for the low state of its morality and the excess of its extravagance
.
And it would be well to clear up at the same time the further disagreement
between the note at page 9 of Gleig , which says , • Lord Westmoreland's court
was remarkable for the low state of its morality and the excess of its extravagance
.
Page 10
The truth is , as Mr. Gleig says further on , that the experience of war and its
requirements which he had accumulated in the Netherlands ' bore fruit , as might
be expected , in due course . Coming from a recent campaign in Europe , he was
...
The truth is , as Mr. Gleig says further on , that the experience of war and its
requirements which he had accumulated in the Netherlands ' bore fruit , as might
be expected , in due course . Coming from a recent campaign in Europe , he was
...
Page 11
... too much to say that he became in a few days , the moving spirit of the
Government in which he had no legal voice . ... the Mysore frontier on the death
of a senior officer , and the general superintendence remained , ' as Gurwood
says , p .
... too much to say that he became in a few days , the moving spirit of the
Government in which he had no legal voice . ... the Mysore frontier on the death
of a senior officer , and the general superintendence remained , ' as Gurwood
says , p .
Page 14
In regard to the celebrated night - attack on the Sultaunpettah Tope before
Seringapatam , Mr. Gleig says :* It was at one time , I believe , a favourite pastime
, with writers to make a great deal of that reverse . The Colonel was represented
as ...
In regard to the celebrated night - attack on the Sultaunpettah Tope before
Seringapatam , Mr. Gleig says :* It was at one time , I believe , a favourite pastime
, with writers to make a great deal of that reverse . The Colonel was represented
as ...
Page 20
And he says further ,Lord Mornington , conscious that he had acted somewhat
unfairly , proposed to reinstate him in his command at Mysore . ' But he neglects
to look at this disagreeable business , which created ill - feeling between all the ...
And he says further ,Lord Mornington , conscious that he had acted somewhat
unfairly , proposed to reinstate him in his command at Mysore . ' But he neglects
to look at this disagreeable business , which created ill - feeling between all the ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 120 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Sir John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1866 |
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