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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... - naghten's taste , there were other competent Generals to be found in India ; men with service experience , sound health , and knowledge of the country . There was also unhappily for himself and his country — a 12 Retribution.
... - naghten's taste , there were other competent Generals to be found in India ; men with service experience , sound health , and knowledge of the country . There was also unhappily for himself and his country — a 12 Retribution.
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... sound promising . Even his own officers spoke of him as harsh , imperious , and unyielding ; while his incon- siderate treatment of men and animals on the march up from India had not made for popularity with the other regiments of his ...
... sound promising . Even his own officers spoke of him as harsh , imperious , and unyielding ; while his incon- siderate treatment of men and animals on the march up from India had not made for popularity with the other regiments of his ...
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... McNeill . For uprightness , sound judgment , and thorough knowledge of Orientals , he stood second to none in the country ; while his unfailing tact and for- bearance made him perhaps the only man who could have Nemesis 19.
... McNeill . For uprightness , sound judgment , and thorough knowledge of Orientals , he stood second to none in the country ; while his unfailing tact and for- bearance made him perhaps the only man who could have Nemesis 19.
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... sound . A proposition so uncompromising could by no means be ceded offhand . It needed thinking over and discuss- ing - favourite processes wherewith the Kabul garri- son became all too familiar within the next few months . Such half ...
... sound . A proposition so uncompromising could by no means be ceded offhand . It needed thinking over and discuss- ing - favourite processes wherewith the Kabul garri- son became all too familiar within the next few months . Such half ...
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... sound advice . Would that it had prevailed ! But on that critical morning of October William Macnaghten was in a mood so passionate and unrea- sonable that Broadfoot scarcely knew him for the kindly natured man who had been , from the ...
... sound advice . Would that it had prevailed ! But on that critical morning of October William Macnaghten was in a mood so passionate and unrea- sonable that Broadfoot scarcely knew him for the kindly natured man who had been , from the ...
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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.