Calcutta Review, Volume 29University of Calcutta., 1857 |
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Page 101
... army . Let the native officers of the regular army be all dismissed , and only very special reasons exempt any one to the extent of giving him a pension . Expediency may forgive a traitor , and compas- sion may forgive a fool ; but ...
... army . Let the native officers of the regular army be all dismissed , and only very special reasons exempt any one to the extent of giving him a pension . Expediency may forgive a traitor , and compas- sion may forgive a fool ; but ...
Page 102
... army ; they would cost rather less than the ten light cavalry regiments did before the mutinies , would be at least equal to thirty of the other sort , and would enable Government to dispense with the two regiments of Her Majesty's ...
... army ; they would cost rather less than the ten light cavalry regiments did before the mutinies , would be at least equal to thirty of the other sort , and would enable Government to dispense with the two regiments of Her Majesty's ...
Page 103
... army has ever a pro- per proportion of cavalry , and that in a nation which can pro- duce more good riders than any country in Europe . No country in the world is more suitable to the action of cavalry than the plains of Hindoostan ...
... army has ever a pro- per proportion of cavalry , and that in a nation which can pro- duce more good riders than any country in Europe . No country in the world is more suitable to the action of cavalry than the plains of Hindoostan ...
Page 104
... army , and whirling down on a mass of fugitives broken and disorganized by the European cavalry . In dours against robbers , or on the frontier , they would be invalu- able . In short , it is nonsense to write what every body knows : we ...
... army , and whirling down on a mass of fugitives broken and disorganized by the European cavalry . In dours against robbers , or on the frontier , they would be invalu- able . In short , it is nonsense to write what every body knows : we ...
Page 106
... army was the small influence possessed by the officers . This was in most cases absolutely nothing . Complaining as they have done of the way they were treated in this respect , the European officers had but a faint idea how very little ...
... army was the small influence possessed by the officers . This was in most cases absolutely nothing . Complaining as they have done of the way they were treated in this respect , the European officers had but a faint idea how very little ...
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