The Life of Sir Thomas Munro, Late Governor of Madras: With Extracts from His Correspondence and Private Papers, 1권H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830 |
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amildars army arrived attack Bangalore Baramahl battalions of sepoys believe Bengal body British bullocks camp Canara Captain Carnatic carried cavalry Cavery Cazi Ceded Districts Coimbitore collector Colonel Munro command Company courts Cuddalore cultivated cutcherry Darwar DEAR MUNRO detachment employed encamped enemy Europeans force friends garrison Ghauts give Government guns horse hour hundred Hyder India infantry inhabitants joined judicial Kistna land letter Lord Lord Cornwallis Madras Mahratta Major Munro marched ment miles military months Mysore native never Nizam obliged occasion officers pagodas party pass Peishwah peons pettah poligars possession potails present province Rajah rayets received regulations rent revenue river sent Seringapatam servants siege Sir Eyre Coote situation soon Soondah Sudder Adawlut tallaries tent thing THOMAS MUNRO thousand tion Tippoo Tippoo Sultan troops Vellore village Wellesley whilst whole wish zillah
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269 페이지 - He drew up, however, in a very strong position, as soon as he perceived me ; and the ' victorious army' stood for some time with apparent firmness. I charged them with the 19th and 25th dragoons, and the 1st and 2nd regiments of cavalry, and drove them before me till they dispersed, and were scattered over the face of the country. I then returned and attacked the royal camp, and got possession of elephants, camels, baggage, etc., etc., which were still upon the ground.
270 페이지 - Chinnoor, but I was not to be prevailed upon to stop, and even went so far as to threaten to hang a great man sent to show me the road, who manifested an inclination to show me a good road to a different place.
381 페이지 - The rosolic acid obtained from rosaniline is free, or almost free, from leuco-rosolic acid. Be this, however, as it may, there can be no doubt that rosaniline and carbolic acid give essentially the same product...
466 페이지 - ... and who in the civil line can hope for nothing beyond some petty judicial or revenue office, in which they may by corrupt means make up for their slender salary...
74 페이지 - I lost three of my spo:>ns, and one of my chairs was broken by one of John Napier's companions. This great blow reduced me to my original obscurity, from which all my attempts to emerge have hitherto proved in vain. My dress has not been more splendid than my furniture. I have never been able to keep it all of a piece ; it grows tattered in one quarter, while...
vi 페이지 - Company's charter, and than whom Europe never produced a more accomplished statesman, nor India, so fertile in heroes, a more skilful soldier.
350 페이지 - After all, notwithstanding this attack upon Assye by our right and the cavalry, no impression was made upon the corps collected there, till I made a movement upon it with some troops taken from our left, after the enemy's right had been defeated ; and it would have been as well to have left it alone entirely till that movement was made.
465 페이지 - ... beyond this mere animal state of thriving in peace — none of them can look forward to any share in the legislation or civil or military government of their country.
76 페이지 - I met with, happened some time between eleven and two. I should have mentioned fives as an amusement that occupied a great deal of my time. I seldom missed above two days in a week at this game, and always played two or three hours at a time, which were taken from my walks and Persian studies. Men are much more boyish in this country than in Europe, and, in spite of the sun, take, I believe, more exercise, and are, however strange it may appear, better able to undergo fatigue, unless on some remarkably...
520 페이지 - Foreign conquerors have treated the natives with violence, and often with great cruelty, but none has treated them with so much scorn as we ; none have stigmatized the whole people as unworthy of trust, as incapable of honesty, and as fit to be employed only where we cannot do without them. It seems to be not only ungenerous, but impolitic, to debase the character of a people fallen under our dominion...