The Judgment of the Sword: The Tale of the Kabul Tragedy, and of the Part Played Therein by Major Eldred Pottinger, the Hero of HeratG. P. Putnam's Sons, 1913 - 683 pages |
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... honour and dignity of Great Britain . Of this last Login could not speak without justifiable heat . " The Governor - General will see for himself before long , " said he , " that in order to influence a man like Yar Mahomed , we must ...
... honour and dignity of Great Britain . Of this last Login could not speak without justifiable heat . " The Governor - General will see for himself before long , " said he , " that in order to influence a man like Yar Mahomed , we must ...
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... honour - the Kabul command . It is difficult to exonerate Lord Auckland except on the score that reports from his Envoy implied the need of a mere military figure - head to parade the troops , and prop up the prestige of a justly ...
... honour - the Kabul command . It is difficult to exonerate Lord Auckland except on the score that reports from his Envoy implied the need of a mere military figure - head to parade the troops , and prop up the prestige of a justly ...
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... honour was involved . Briefly , the position was this : Among the many pledges given on Shah Shuja's restoration was one to raise the pay of loyal chiefs by the negative plan of exempting them from part of the land - tax - an order ...
... honour was involved . Briefly , the position was this : Among the many pledges given on Shah Shuja's restoration was one to raise the pay of loyal chiefs by the negative plan of exempting them from part of the land - tax - an order ...
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... else to be done . Eldred Pottinger was not the man to accept such a conclusion unchallenged . For him it was no question of unpopularity , but of British pledges broken , British honour sullied , as - in spite of many Nemesis 39.
... else to be done . Eldred Pottinger was not the man to accept such a conclusion unchallenged . For him it was no question of unpopularity , but of British pledges broken , British honour sullied , as - in spite of many Nemesis 39.
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... honour sullied , as - in spite of many errors- it had not been sullied yet ; and that for a retrench- ment which could hardly even be counted as such , since the money so negatively given had no place in Government accounts at all . For ...
... honour sullied , as - in spite of many errors- it had not been sullied yet ; and that for a retrench- ment which could hardly even be counted as such , since the money so negatively given had no place in Government accounts at all . For ...
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Afghan Afghanistan Akbar Khan arms army arrival Bala-Hissar Behmaru Brigadier British Broadfoot camels camp cantonments Captain cavalry Charikar cheer chiefs Colin Mackenzie command courage Dōst Eldred Pottinger Elphinstone enemy Envoy escort eyes Eyre face Feringhi fight fire force friends Gandamak garrison gate Ghazni Ghilzais guard guns Gurkhas halt hand Haughton heart Herat hills honour hope horse hostages hundred India Istalif Jalálabad jezails Kandahar Kazzilbash Khurd Kabul knew Kohistan Lady Sale Lawrence letter Lord Auckland Lord Ellenborough Macgregor Mackenzie's Macnaghten Mahomed Akbar ment miles morning night Nott numbers officers once party passed Peshawur plain Pollock Pottinger's prisoners regiment remained retreat rode rupees Sahib Sale's Saleh Mahomed seemed sent sepoys Shah Shah Shuja Shelton Sirdar snow soldiers sowars spirit Sturt sword Tazín things thousand tion treaty troops Troup valley walls William Macnaghten women word wounded wrote
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Page 309 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank, and fiery Hun, Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave ! And charge with all thy chivalry ! Few, few, shall part where many meet ! The snow shall be their winding sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
Page 189 - Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury ; thou shalt no more drink it again : but I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee ; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
Page 394 - The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. 3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
Page 387 - In the faith of little children we lay down and died. On the sand-drift — on the veldt-side — in the fernscrub we lay, That our sons might follow after by the bones on the way. Follow after — follow after! We have watered the root, And the bud has come to blossom that ripens for fruit! Follow after — we are waiting by the trails that we lost For the sound of many footsteps, for the tread of a host.
Page 394 - Where is now their God? 11 O let the vengeance of Thy servants' blood that is shed : be openly shewed upon the heathen in our sight. 12 O let the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners come before Thee : according to the greatness of Thy power, preserve Thou those that are appointed to die.
Page 446 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness...
Page 394 - O remember not our old sins ; but have mercy upon us, and that soon : for we are come to great misery.