The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial RecordOriental Institute, 1900 Beginning Apr. 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association. |
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... Herat , where he showed himself endowed with a higher sense of his nation's honour than did the Viceroy , who disavowed and tried to disgrace him , and going back to military duty proved himself the good soldier and sterling fellow he ...
... Herat , where he showed himself endowed with a higher sense of his nation's honour than did the Viceroy , who disavowed and tried to disgrace him , and going back to military duty proved himself the good soldier and sterling fellow he ...
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... Herat , in and out of Candahar . " I have lately had before me , sent from Bombay , a correspondence between the commanding officer of the troops , General Nott , and this gentleman , in which the latter requires the former to march out ...
... Herat , in and out of Candahar . " I have lately had before me , sent from Bombay , a correspondence between the commanding officer of the troops , General Nott , and this gentleman , in which the latter requires the former to march out ...
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... Herat in 1840 , at Kandahar in 1857-58 , at Kabul in 1879 , have cried for aid to India as the solitary militia com- mandant at Wana or Tochi hope for rescue should his men prove false . We can but hope that the experiment will be most ...
... Herat in 1840 , at Kandahar in 1857-58 , at Kabul in 1879 , have cried for aid to India as the solitary militia com- mandant at Wana or Tochi hope for rescue should his men prove false . We can but hope that the experiment will be most ...
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... Herat , whilst the British outposts are more than 400 miles distant— namely , at Chaman . This fact alone should surely arouse some apprehension . It is acknowledged by her own writers that Russia's steady advance , aptly compared by ...
... Herat , whilst the British outposts are more than 400 miles distant— namely , at Chaman . This fact alone should surely arouse some apprehension . It is acknowledged by her own writers that Russia's steady advance , aptly compared by ...
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... Herat Valley , and the characteristics of the surrounding country in Afghanistan and Baluchistan , require some explanation . The advantages of the former to an invader . lie in its great fertility , rendering it capable of supplying ...
... Herat Valley , and the characteristics of the surrounding country in Afghanistan and Baluchistan , require some explanation . The advantages of the former to an invader . lie in its great fertility , rendering it capable of supplying ...
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