Soldier and Traveller: Memoirs of Alexander Gardner, Colonel of Artillery in the Service of Maharaja Ranjit SinghW. Blackwood, 1898 - 359 páginas |
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Página ix
... chief - Slave - dealing - Trav- elling companions - Some Badakshan history - The ruins of ancient Zaruth - The Kafir empire of early times - Difficult travelling - Attacked by wolves - Undesirable acquaint- ances -The Therbah's finger ...
... chief - Slave - dealing - Trav- elling companions - Some Badakshan history - The ruins of ancient Zaruth - The Kafir empire of early times - Difficult travelling - Attacked by wolves - Undesirable acquaint- ances -The Therbah's finger ...
Página xvii
... chiefs who held Peshawar , and who were subdued by Maharaja Ranjit Singh . While there he received a command to enter Ranjit Singh's ser- vice , and proceeded to Lahore . He was employed in the Maharaja's service as commandant of ...
... chiefs who held Peshawar , and who were subdued by Maharaja Ranjit Singh . While there he received a command to enter Ranjit Singh's ser- vice , and proceeded to Lahore . He was employed in the Maharaja's service as commandant of ...
Página xviii
... chief feudatories of the Sikh sovereignty . He made the acquaintance of Henry Lawrence , then a rising political officer at Peshawar , at the time of the British disasters at Kabul in 1841. After Dhyan Singh's death he served Gulab ...
... chief feudatories of the Sikh sovereignty . He made the acquaintance of Henry Lawrence , then a rising political officer at Peshawar , at the time of the British disasters at Kabul in 1841. After Dhyan Singh's death he served Gulab ...
Página xxiii
... chief will be the conqueror and another the conquered , the women , generally numerous , of the vanquished are infamously seized as the spoil of the victor . But often the pride of the women will not brook this . When they see that ...
... chief will be the conqueror and another the conquered , the women , generally numerous , of the vanquished are infamously seized as the spoil of the victor . But often the pride of the women will not brook this . When they see that ...
Página xxxiii
... chiefs . Above all was an unmanageable army acknowledging no power but its own . The destruction of all these elements , the one by the other , was about happening when the first Sikh war broke out . On a retrospect we may almost regret ...
... chiefs . Above all was an unmanageable army acknowledging no power but its own . The destruction of all these elements , the one by the other , was about happening when the first Sikh war broke out . On a retrospect we may almost regret ...
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