History of the Political and Military Transactions in India During the Administration of the Marquess of Hastings, 1813-1823, 2. kötetKingsbury, Parbury & Allen, 1825 |
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advance affairs Ameer Khan amongst Apa Saheb Arabs army arrangement artillery Aseergurh attack Bajee Rao battalion Bengal Bhoosla Bombay brigade Brigadier-general Doveton British government British officers camp Captain cavalry charge Cheetoo chief Colonel Adams command conduct corps course David Ochterlony Dehlee detachment direction division dominions Dukhun durbar durra effect Elphinstone enemy establishment favour force garrison Ghât Gokla Governor-general Gunput Rao guns Gwalior Hindoostan Holkur horse immediately India infantry jageer jageerdars Juswunt Rao Jypoor Kandês Kiladar Kirkee lakh lakh of rupees Lieutenant Lieutenant-colonel Lord Hastings Madras Mahratta Mahratta empire Malwa Marquess of Hastings means ment military Mohummed Nagpoor native neral Nerbudda party Pêshwa Pindarees Poona possession prince principal Putan Raja Raja's Rajpoot Rao's Resident resolved revenue rupees Saheb sent Sindheea Sir David Ochterlony Sir John Malcolm Sir Thomas Hislop sirdars submission surrender Sutara territory tion treaty tribute troops whole wounded Zalim Singh
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419. oldal - ... controlling power. The dark age of trouble and violence, which so long spread its malign influence over the fertile regions of Central India, has thus ceased from this time ; and a new era has commenced, we trust, with brighter prospects, — an era of peace, prosperity, and wealth at least, if not of political liberty and high moral improvement.
151. oldal - The chief's mangled remains were given over to his son for interment, and the miserable fate of one, who so shortly before had ridden at the head of twenty thousand horse, gave an awful lesson of the uncertainty of fortune, and drew pity even from those who had been the victims of his barbarity when living.
107. oldal - For about ten days, that it raged with particular fury the whole camp was a hospital* ; and the deaths in this short period amounted, according to the nearest estimate that could be made, to a tenth of the whole number collected. Europeans and natives, fighting men and camp followers, were alike affected; but the latter, being generally worse clothed and fed, suffered in a greater proportion, Of the Europeans there were fewer cases of seizure ; but those which occurred were more frequently fatal,...
149. oldal - British service ; he decamped as suddenly as he had come ; while he staid, his horses were constantly saddled, and the men slept with the bridles in their hands, ready to fly, instantly, in case of an attempt to seize them.
160. oldal - ... utterly disabled him, and in the end proved mortal. The charge fortunately was successful, and was executed with such judicious celerity and spirit, that it saved the lives of Captain Swanston and Lieutenant Connellan, both of whom were in the Arabs' hands, and having just witnessed the massacre and mutilation of their comrades, were expecting a like fate to themselves. Every man of the Arabs, who had penetrated to the pagoda, was bayoneted without mercy, and from this time the enemy relaxed...
106. oldal - ... very inferior quality. That part of Bundelkhund, where the division was encamped when the disease first showed itself, was, moreover, low and notoriously unhealthy ; besides which, except when obtained from running streams, the water was generally indifferent. The time of the year too was precisely that, at which the heat of the day is most strongly contrasted with the cold of the night. All these circumstances, superadded to the crowded state of the camp of so large an army, gave to the epidemic,...
21. oldal - ... Bhopal territories. Sir T. Hislop and Sir J. Malcolm were to settle the details of the treaty , they were soon expected to arrive on the Nerbudda The Marquess declared to the Council of Fort William, his reasons for deviating from the more limited views that seemed to be entertained in England, and expressed a confident hope, that the enlarged plan he had laid down, for the secure and permanent attainment of his object, would meet with the assent of the most considerable princes of Central India....
31. oldal - Sindheea, has signed a treaty, by which his Highness engages to afford every facilitation to the British troops, in their pursuit of the Pindarees through his dominions, and to cooperate actively towards the extinction of those brutal freebooters. In consequence, the troops and country of his Highness are to be regarded as those of an ally. " The generous confidence and animated zeal of the army may experience a shade of disappointment, in the diminished prospect of serious exertion ; but the Governor-general...
213. oldal - Taptee, was one of the places ceded to the English by Holkar under the late treaty. Sir Thomas had in his possession Holkar's own orders for the quiet surrender of the place ; yet a fire was opened upon his troops from the fort. The Mahratta killadar, or commandant, was warned that if he continued to resist the order of his master, he would be dealt with as a rebel; without heeding the message, the killadar continued to fire. Upon this Sir Thomas Hislop occupied the pettah, or open town, and turned...
30. oldal - Goorkhas to make common cause with the rest of the independent powers of India, were found neatly pasted between the leaves of a Sanscrit book of the Vedas, which one of them, travelling as a student, was carrying with him. Several sealed and some open letters from the chief himself were found upon them, the former were sent by his lordship to be presented to his highness in full Durbar, unopened and without comment ; in order that he might not suppose us to be ignorant of the intrigues and machinations...