A Narrative of the Political and Military Transactions of British India: Under the Administration of the Marquess of Hastings 1813 to 1818J. Murray, 1820 - 468페이지 |
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advance affairs alliance Ameer Khan Appa Saheb Arabs army arrived artillery attack Bajee Rao battalions Bengal Bhoosla Bhopâl brigade Brigadier-General Brigadier-General Doveton British Government British Resident Bundelkhund camp cantonment Captain cavalry cession chief Colonel Adams command conduct court David Ochterlony Dehlee demand detachment direction disposition division dominions Doveton Dukhun durbar durra effect Elphinstone enemy enemy's favour frontier further Ghât Goorkha Governor-General guns Guzerât Gwalior Gykwar Hindoostan Holkar horse hostility immediately India infantry intrigues Jenkins Juswunt Rao Jypoor Killadar Kureem lack rupees Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Hastings Madras Mahommed Mahratta Mahratta empire Malwa Marquess of Hastings ment military minister Nâgpoor native negotiation Nerayun Nerbudda Nizam Nuwab object officers party Patan Pêshwa Pindarees Poona possession prince Ragoojee Raja Raja's Rao's resolved rupees Sâgur Sastree sent Sindheea Singh Sir John Malcolm Sir Thomas Hislop sirdars stipulation subsidiary force surrender Suttara territory treaty treaty of Bassein Trimbukjee troops whole
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170 페이지 - Still, however, their depredations during this campaign or season of 1816-17 had embraced a more ample expanse of territory than had ever before been attempted, extending from shore to shore of the peninsula of India, and including all the intermediate provinces they had omitted the preceding year. By this time it was very completely demonstrated that stationary posts of defence could not prevent the Pindarrees from crossing the Nerbudda and getting into our territories; and that it would...
279 페이지 - ... very inferior quality. That part of Bundelkhund, where the division was encamped when the disease first showed itself, was, moreover, low and notoriously unhealthy ; besides which, except when obtained from running streams, the water was generally indifferent. The time of the year too was precisely that, at which the heat of the day is most strongly contrasted with the cold of the night. All these circumstances, superadded to the crowded state of the camp of so large an army, gave to the epidemic,...
23 페이지 - Pindarae lust or avarice ; it was their common practice to burn and destroy what could not be carried away, and, in the wantonness of barbarity, to ravish and murder women and children, under the eyes of their husbands and parents.
117 페이지 - Kishna on the 22d of March. A squadron of the Madras 4th native cavalry, arrived on the opposite bank of the river, just after they had made good their passage. A considerable force was in the field a little to the west, but though it sent out detachments in every direction, and others were despatched from Hyderabad in their rear, the plunderers escaped from all with impunity. After recrossing the Kishna, the luhbur seems by agreement to have separated into several bodies, in order the better to...
220 페이지 - Hastings briefly declared his reasons for deviating from the more limited views that seemed to be entertained in England ; and at the same time expressed a confident hope, that the enlarged plan he had laid down for the secure and permanent attainment of his object, would meet with the assent of the most considerable princes of Central India.
165 페이지 - Concan, and thence shaped his course due north, plundering the western shores of India, from the 17th to the 21st degree of north latitude, and returning by the valley of the Taptee, and the route of Burhaunpore, the capital of the Khandeish province of the Deccan.
226 페이지 - Sindheea, has signed a treaty, by which his Highness engages to afford every facilitation to the British troops, in their pursuit of the Pindarees through his dominions, and to cooperate actively towards the extinction of those brutal freebooters. In consequence, the troops and country of his Highness are to be regarded as those of an ally. " The generous confidence and animated zeal of the army may experience a shade of disappointment, in the diminished prospect of serious exertion ; but the Governor-general...
351 페이지 - Taptee, was one of the places ceded to the English by Holkar under the late treaty. Sir Thomas had in his possession Holkar's own orders for the quiet surrender of the place ; yet a fire was opened upon his troops from the fort. The Mahratta killadar, or commandant, was warned that if he continued to resist the order of his master, he would be dealt with as a rebel; without heeding the message, the killadar continued to fire. Upon this Sir Thomas Hislop occupied the pettah, or open town, and turned...
278 페이지 - Jessore it spread in all directions, shewing, as it was thought, a preference for the valleys of rivers. Ascending the valley of the Ganges, it reached the camp of Brigadier-general Hardyman about the beginning of October ; but the troops, being then encamped in a dry healthy country, and being but few in number, suffered comparatively little. Continuing its course westward, it fell with extraordinary violence upon the army commanded by Lord Hastings in person, just after his lordship had concluded...
220 페이지 - Rao. preparations was to get rid of the greatest pest that society ever experienced." He did not hesitate to take upon himself the undivided responsibility of acting without the full sanction of the home authorities ; for he felt confident the result would justify his determination in the eyes of those authorities, and of the British nation at large.