Narrative of the War in Affghanistan in 1838-39, Том 1Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1840 A personal narrative of the British intervention in Afghanistan. |
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4th brigade advance Affghanistan Affghans Ameers amongst arms army artillery baggage Barukzye Belooche Bengal force Bhag Bhawul Khan Bolan pass Bombay brigade British Bukkur Cabul camels camp Candahar capital columns command commander-in-chief contingent corps Cutch Gundava Dadur debouche defile Dera desert division durru dusht encampment Ferozepore frontier Gharra Ghuznee governor-general Hajee head-quarters Herat Hindoostan horse Hydrabad India Indus Kafila Kakurs Kelat Khyrpore Kozuk Kurnal Kwettah labour Lieutenant light cavalry lofty Lord Auckland Lower Sinde Maha Rajah Meer Roostum Meerut ment Mihrab Khan miles military morning mountains moved native infantry OBSERVATIONS officers Persian Peshawur Pesheen plains provinces Punjab reached regiments right bank river road Rojhan Roree route ruler Runjeet Shah Shooja Shawl Shikarpore siege train Sikh Sindian Sir Alexander Burnes Sir Henry Fane Sir John Keane Sir Willoughby Cotton sirdars Siriab soldiers staff stream Sutlege tents tion town traversed troops valley whilst whole
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Стр. x - But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
Стр. 320 - Kozuk pass, recognising all the distinctive peaks of the scattered hills, which we had observed from that commanding height. We saw them now magnified, as we approached them, and casting a dark shade over the plains, which they overhung. Anxious looks were from time to time cast towards these green...
Стр. vii - ... defrayed the cost of giving it to a limited number of readers. Yet a counterpoise to these mortifications was not wanting. A few officers of rank, whose discernment and candour I could not doubt, even in my own cause, had characterized the performance as honest and faithful ; three Commanders-in-Chief in India had spoken favourably of it to others as well as to myself; and I have been deceived if, when war was likely to be renewed in the Burman Empire, and information regarding it had...
Стр. 157 - Vainly repining, therefore, at the change in events which had given this small sum [ten lacs] to the state, instead of endowing the army with eight crores, its officers and men, with light purses and heavy hearts, turned their backs on Hydrabad, from which they had hoped never to recede until they had made its treasure their own, and put to a stern proof that Belooche valour which had so loudly vaunted its power to arrest their further progress ; and fix on the banks of the Indus the war which they...
Стр. 319 - Candahar sirdars have caused to be dammed up near its source in the hills, and behold two bold brigades, and the levy of the Shah, reduced to the greatest straits. Horses already half starved for want of grain and good grass, were throughout the day panting in all the agonies of thirst, and in the evening a few drops of water could not be obtained even to mix the medicines of the sick in our hospitals, or to supply them with the refreshment and comfort of a few spoonfuls of tea.
Стр. 324 - British dragoons and native troopers were seen eagerly sharing with their chargers muddy and foetid water drawn from puddles at the side of the road, the very sight of which would, in Hindostan, have equally sickened all to whom it was offered ; they struck into a by-road on their left, and winding their way by a narrow path through an opening in the undulating eminences, found themselves towards evening on the banks of a plentiful stream. The rush of unbridled indulgence of the troops and their...
Стр. 87 - But it was impossible not to feel that this complaisance was carried a little too far, when he was exhibited in the character of a Bacchus or Silenus urging others to take part in his orgies, in the presence of an assemblage of English gentlewomen, and when their notions of decency were further outraged by the introduction, to whatever extent sanctioned by culpable usage in other parts of India, of bands of singing and dancing courtesans.