Category: History - British
Any one who has coasted the Andamans will bear witness to the beauty of those Islands, of which, at the time I visited them, marvellous tales were related. The predilection of the inhabitants of those realms for their white brethren, when shipwrecked on these shores, was said...
The army of the Indus having effected the object for which they had been assembled, it was resolved to leave Shah Soojah to the charge of his loving subjects, supported by the c...
15. CHAPTER V.Sir John Keane's force was advancing by another route, nearer the foot of the mountains of Beloochistan, towards the Bolan pass; and Sir Willoughby Cotton, thinking it prudent t...
21. CHAPTER XI.Having thus floundered through the Jhelum, we had passed the boundary of the Mussulmaun, and entered the Sikh division--i.e., the Punjaub. The Punjaub is bounded on the north-we...
11. CHAPTER I.Any one who has coasted the Andamans will bear witness to the beauty of those Islands, of which, at the time I visited them, marvellous tales were related. The predilection of t...
16. CHAPTER VI.On the morning of the 27th of April we entered the plain in which Kandahar is situated, and encamped about two miles from the city. This plain is well irrigated and tilled. Gard...
20. CHAPTER X.The approaches to the city from the north-east are commanded by a large fort, recently completed by the assistance of some French officers, and under the eye of General Avitabilè.
13. CHAPTER III.The fortress of Herat, which formed the frontier bulwark of the kingdom of Caubul, but which was now in possession of Prince Kamran, (son of Mahmood, a deposed monarch of Afghan...
18. CHAPTER VIII.On the morning of the 6th of August, the army moved through a well-irrigated and woody valley, to the foot of a small hill, on the further side of which lay the celebrated metro...
17. CHAPTER VII.The plan of operations against Ghuzni having now been arranged, general orders directed the troops to move as quietly as possible from their quarters to the allotted positions....
14. CHAPTER IV.On the 29th of December, the cavalry-brigade reached Bahawulpore, in the vicinity of which the country is richly cultivated. The view was enlivened by hordes of Bahawul Khan's w...
12. CHAPTER II.Our party, consisting of three officers of my regiment and myself, started on the evening of the 1st of August, and having halted during the heat of the next day at a house on t...
10. CHAPTER XI.8. CHAPTER IX.6. CHAPTER VII.7. CHAPTER VIII.3. CHAPTER IV.5. CHAPTER VI.2. CHAPTER III.4. CHAPTER V.9. CHAPTER X.1. CHAPTER I.