Category: History - British
Twenty years elapsed--and so far as England was concerned, Europe continued tranquil. If the British sword did not rust, it rested quietly in the sheath--and the East ere long was destined to prove, that during that period of inactivity, its temper had remained unaltered.
The fatal _dénouement_ of the retreat from Cabool was still in vivid colouring before the British public, when tidings from the East announced that it might be considered only a...
2. CHAPTER II.For a time, affairs in Scinde, after the Cabool disasters, looked peaceable; but the conditions proposed by new treaties to the Amirs, in the infringements upon their game prese...
1. CHAPTER I.Twenty years elapsed--and so far as England was concerned, Europe continued tranquil. If the British sword did not rust, it rested quietly in the sheath--and the East ere long w...