The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and AustraliaParbury, Allen, and Company, 1841 |
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... July 8th ; Madras , July 10th ; Bombay , July 20th ; Macao , May 20th . The intelligence from China , which has been expected with so much solicitude , adds but little to that which was communicated in our June Journal . The Emperor ...
... July 8th ; Madras , July 10th ; Bombay , July 20th ; Macao , May 20th . The intelligence from China , which has been expected with so much solicitude , adds but little to that which was communicated in our June Journal . The Emperor ...
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... July , and have ere this reach- ed the scene of operations , where , besides the other force , six formidable war steamers , or " wheeled fire - ships , " would be collected , and six more were to follow from Bombay . In Affghanistan ...
... July , and have ere this reach- ed the scene of operations , where , besides the other force , six formidable war steamers , or " wheeled fire - ships , " would be collected , and six more were to follow from Bombay . In Affghanistan ...
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... July , 1839 , a treaty was entered into , by which we allowed the Shah Rs . 25,000 per mensem , on certain conditions , one of which was , " that he should hold no intercourse with Persia without the knowledge and consent of the British ...
... July , 1839 , a treaty was entered into , by which we allowed the Shah Rs . 25,000 per mensem , on certain conditions , one of which was , " that he should hold no intercourse with Persia without the knowledge and consent of the British ...
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... July , the British sepoys and the Shah's troops vied with each other in valour ; the enemy were defeated with much slaughter , having lost 1,000 men , including three chiefs . The Janbaz , or Affghan levies , who appear to have acted ...
... July , the British sepoys and the Shah's troops vied with each other in valour ; the enemy were defeated with much slaughter , having lost 1,000 men , including three chiefs . The Janbaz , or Affghan levies , who appear to have acted ...
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... mani- fest themselves in July , when the heated soil cracks in every direction , opening Asiat.Journ.N.S.VOL.36.No.143 . T its parched lips in supplication for a few drops of The Steppes of Southern Russia . - No . I. 137.
... mani- fest themselves in July , when the heated soil cracks in every direction , opening Asiat.Journ.N.S.VOL.36.No.143 . T its parched lips in supplication for a few drops of The Steppes of Southern Russia . - No . I. 137.
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