History of the British Possessions in the East Indies, Том 2Whittaker & Company, 1837 |
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... ranks is thus detailed in the recent evidence before Parliament . The lowest police officer is the village watcher . There are several in a village who perform the lower offices . They are under the control of the head of the village ...
... ranks is thus detailed in the recent evidence before Parliament . The lowest police officer is the village watcher . There are several in a village who perform the lower offices . They are under the control of the head of the village ...
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... rank , and nearly of the same number , as to a battalion in the service of Her Majesty . The general history of the native army of Fort St. George is short . Sepoys were first disciplined , as has been stated , on that establishment in ...
... rank , and nearly of the same number , as to a battalion in the service of Her Majesty . The general history of the native army of Fort St. George is short . Sepoys were first disciplined , as has been stated , on that establishment in ...
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... ranks of its regiments of regular ca- valry with the prime of the Mahomedan youth 1 of the Carnatic . When this corps was in the service of the Nabob of the Car- natic , though it was often very highly distinguished , the in- trigues of ...
... ranks of its regiments of regular ca- valry with the prime of the Mahomedan youth 1 of the Carnatic . When this corps was in the service of the Nabob of the Car- natic , though it was often very highly distinguished , the in- trigues of ...
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... ranks amongst the hardest fought that have been gained by the illustrious Wellington , the British dragoons , when making their extremest efforts , saw their Asiatic fellow soldiers keep pace for pace , and give blow for blow . A more ...
... ranks amongst the hardest fought that have been gained by the illustrious Wellington , the British dragoons , when making their extremest efforts , saw their Asiatic fellow soldiers keep pace for pace , and give blow for blow . A more ...
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... ranks without leave . It was with the greatest difficulty that Colonel Floyd , who commanded the force , could reconcile him to the disgrace he conceived he had suffered ( to use his own expression ) from his enemy ' being taken from ...
... ranks without leave . It was with the greatest difficulty that Colonel Floyd , who commanded the force , could reconcile him to the disgrace he conceived he had suffered ( to use his own expression ) from his enemy ' being taken from ...
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Страница 203 - ... and that no graven image, statue or sculpture, carving, painting, picture, portrait or the likeness of anything shall be admitted within the said messuages, building land, tenements, hereditaments and premises and that no sacrifice, offering or oblation of any kind or thing shall ever be permitted therein...
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Страница 120 - If .plunder and devastation be directed against themselves and the force employed be irresistible, they flee to friendly villages at a distance, but when the storm has passed over they return and resume their occupations. If a country remain for a series of years the scene of continued pillage and massacre, so that the village cannot be inhabited, the scattered villagers nevertheless return whenever the power of peaceable possession revives.
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Страница 308 - But to say that the Hindoos or Mussulmans are deficient in any essential feature of a civilized people, is an assertion which I can scarcely suppose to be made by any who have lived with them. Their manners are at least as pleasing and courteous as those in the corresponding stations of life among ourselves...