Memoirs and Correspondence of Major-General Sir William Nott, Том 1Hurst and Blackett, 1854 Sir William Nott (1782-1845) was an army officer in the East India Company who commanded British and Anglo-Indian forces in the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-42). He was born into a farm family of modest means in Glamorganshire, Wales, and received a limited elementary education. He embarked for India in 1800, and received a commission in the army of the East India Company. For many years he commanded a succession of native infantry regiments. Throughout his military career he appreciated the military qualities of the sepoy (Indian soldiers serving in the army of the East India Company), which he compared favorably with those of the British soldier. A colonel before the Anglo-Afghan War began, Nott soon was promoted to general. He commanded British and native troops in several successful engagements and on January 13, 1842, was appointed commander of all British and Anglo-Indian troops in Lower Afghanistan and Sind. He won a major victory over Afghan forces near Ghazni on August 30, 1842, which led to the capture of Kabul and ultimately termination of the war. After service as resident at the court of Lucknow, Nott returned to England, where within two years he died. This book was compiled posthumously by J.H. Stocqueler, the author of several books of biography and British military history, using documents in the possession of Nott's daughters. Volume two of the work has a long appendix containing documents relevant to Nott's activities in Afghanistan, some by Nott himself but most by other officers. Nott is regarded by historians as by far the best British general in the Anglo-Afghan War. |
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... event , the late Sir Herbert Mackworth , of Gnoll Castle , near Neath in Glamorganshire , having had his attention drawn to the ability of Mr. Charles Nott as an agriculturist , invited him to go and establish himself upon an extensive ...
... event , the late Sir Herbert Mackworth , of Gnoll Castle , near Neath in Glamorganshire , having had his attention drawn to the ability of Mr. Charles Nott as an agriculturist , invited him to go and establish himself upon an extensive ...
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... event of his life reflected greater brilliancy upon his character than the emanations of his lofty spirit disclosed in the defence before the court . Let it be borne in mind that he was at this time but nineteen years of age , impetuous ...
... event of his life reflected greater brilliancy upon his character than the emanations of his lofty spirit disclosed in the defence before the court . Let it be borne in mind that he was at this time but nineteen years of age , impetuous ...
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... event , be dismissed the service with infamy for his cruel and inhuman treatment of the detachment under my command while on board his ship , and for his shameful behaviour in face of the enemy on the 27th of July last . But he well ...
... event , be dismissed the service with infamy for his cruel and inhuman treatment of the detachment under my command while on board his ship , and for his shameful behaviour in face of the enemy on the 27th of July last . But he well ...
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... I am conscious of my own inno- cence ; and when I consider that I am to be judged by the justice and virtue of this Honourable Court , I shall make myself perfectly easy as to the event . I demand OF SIR WILLIAM NOTT . 27.
... I am conscious of my own inno- cence ; and when I consider that I am to be judged by the justice and virtue of this Honourable Court , I shall make myself perfectly easy as to the event . I demand OF SIR WILLIAM NOTT . 27.
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Sir William Nott Joachim Hayward Stocqueler. myself perfectly easy as to the event . I demand only justice , and justice I am sure I shall have . Fort William , Dec. 27 , 1804 . WILLIAM NOTT , Lieut . 2nd Battalion Bengal Volunteers ...
Sir William Nott Joachim Hayward Stocqueler. myself perfectly easy as to the event . I demand only justice , and justice I am sure I shall have . Fort William , Dec. 27 , 1804 . WILLIAM NOTT , Lieut . 2nd Battalion Bengal Volunteers ...
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Стр. 10 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Стр. 462 - ... commerce, and to gain for the British nation in Central Asia that legitimate influence which an interchange of benefits would naturally produce.
Стр. 464 - Excellency has been compelled, by the refusal of his just demands, and by a systematic course of disrespect adopted towards him by the Persian Government, to quit the Court of the Shah, and to make a public declaration of the cessation of all intercourse between the two Governments. The necessity under which Great Britain is placed, of regarding the present advance of the Persian Arms into Afghanistan as an act of hostility towards herself, has also been officially communicated to the Shah, under...
Стр. 462 - ... peaceful and beneficial purposes of the British Government would be altogether frustrated. In order to avert a result so calamitous , the Governorgeneral resolved on authorizing Captain Burnes to intimate to Dost Mahomed Khan , that if he should evince a disposition to come to just and reasonable terms with the Maharajah, his Lordship would exert his good offices with his Highness for the restoration of an amicable understanding between the two powers.
Стр. 439 - ... enemy, stained by the foul crime of assassination, has, through a failure of supplies, followed by consummate treachery, been able to overcome a body of British troops, in a country removed, by distance and difficulties of season from the possibility of succour. But the Governor-General in Council, while he most deeply laments the loss of the brave officers and men, regards this partial reverse only as a new occasion for displaying the stability and vigour of the British power, and the admirable...
Стр. 464 - The chiefs of Candahar (brothers of Dost Mahomed Khan of Cabool) have avowed their adherence to the Persian policy, with the same full knowledge of its opposition to the rights and interests of the British nation in India, and have been openly assisting in the operations against Herat.
Стр. 463 - Cabool remained under his government, we could never hope that the tranquillity of our neighbourhood would be secured, or that the interests of our Indian empire would be preserved inviolate.
Стр. 355 - The scandal was open, undisguised, notorious. Redress was not to be obtained. The evil was not in course of suppression. It went on till it became intolerable ; and the injured then began to see that the only remedy was in their own hands. It is enough to state broadly this painful fact. There are many who can fill in with vivid personality all the melancholy details of this chapter of human weakness, and supply a catalogue of the wrongs which were soon to be so fearfully redressed.
Стр. 466 - Afghans have been impaired. Even to the chiefs, whose hostile proceedings have given just cause of offence to the British Government, it. will seek to secure liberal and honourable treatment, on their tendering early submission, and ceasing from opposition to that course of measures which may be judged the most suitable for the general advantage of their country.
Стр. 466 - Crown; but he rejoices that, in the discharge of his duty, he will be enabled to assist in restoring the union and prosperity of the Afghan people. Throughout the approaching operations, British influence will be sedulously employed to further every measure of general benefit, to reconcile differences, to secure oblivion of injuries, and to put an end to the distractions by which, for so many years, the welfare and happiness of the Afghans have been impaired.