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Outram [and] Havelock's Persian Campaign .. George Henry Hunt,George Henry Townsend No preview available - 2018 |
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64th regiment 78th Highlanders Afghan Afghanistan agents Akwâz ancient Arab arms arrival artillery attack Bagdad bank batteries boats Bombay brigade British government British minister British mission Bushire Cabul camp Candahar Captain cavalry chargé d'affaires chief Colonel Sheil command despatch Dost Mahomed Khan dynasty empire enemy enemy's engagements English Euphrates expedition favour fire force guns Herat Hoossein Khan horse-artillery hundred yards India Indian navy Karoon Khorassan king land letter light infantry Lord Lord Palmerston McNeill Meerza Hashem Khan ment miles Mohammerah monarch Murray Nâdir nations native infantry night o'clock officers once Persian army Persian government Persian ministers Persian troops Poona horse prince provinces received remain river round shot rulers Russia Sadr Azim Scinde horse Scythia second division sent Shah Kamran shah's ships shot Sir James Sir James Outram steamer Syed Mahomed Khan Tehran thousand throne tion town treaty tribes Yar Mahomed Khan
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Page 24 - Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up...
Page 28 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships by thousands lay below, And men in nations; — all were his! He counted them at break of day, And when the sun set, where were they?
Page 15 - And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea. 2 And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
Page 23 - NOW in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing...
Page 57 - ... by so many moral causes, most powerfully contributes to form and to maintain the national character of barbarians. In every age the immense plains of Scythia or Tartary have been inhabited by vagrant tribes of hunters and shepherds, whose indolence refuses to cultivate the earth, and whose restless spirit disdains the confinement of a sedentary life.
Page 162 - Government engages not to send troops on any account to the territory of Herat, excepting when troops from without attack that place, that is to say, troops from the direction of Cabul or...
Page 164 - Khootbeh," or to any other mark whatever of subjection or of allegiance on the part of the people of Herat to Persia. But if, as in the time of the late Kamran and in that of the late Yar Mahomed Khan, they should, of their own accord, send an offering in money and strike it in the Shah's name Persia will receive it without making any objection. This condition will also be immediately communicated to Syed Mahomed Khan. They also engage to recall...
Page 117 - Lordship publicly, that the country between the frontiers of Persia and India is far more productive than I had imagined it to be ; and I can assure your Lordship that there is no impediment, either from the physical features of the country, or from the deficiency of supplies, to the march of a large army from the frontiers of Georgia to Kandahar, or, as I believe, to the Indus.
Page 118 - Candahar not ouly presents no difficulty but affords remarkable facilities for the passage of armies. " There is therefore, my Lord, no security for India in the nature of the country through which an army would have to pass to invade it from this side. " On the contrary, the whole line is peculiarly favourable for such an enterprise ; and I am the more anxious to state this opinion clearly, because it is at variance with my previous belief, and with statements which I may have previously hazarded,...
Page 17 - were originally a nation of shepherds and herdsmen, occupying a rude country, such as naturally fosters a hardy race of people, capable of supporting both cold and watching, and, when needful, of enduring the toils of war.