Soldier and Traveller: Memoirs of Alexander Gardner, Colonel of Artillery in the Service of Maharaja Ranjit SinghW. Blackwood, 1898 - 359 páginas |
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... body of English visitors and the subjects of his Highness the reigning Maharaja . The officer selected for duty on this occasion was Mr Frederick Cooper - a man well known in his day for a terrible act of severity performed A by him in ...
... body of English visitors and the subjects of his Highness the reigning Maharaja . The officer selected for duty on this occasion was Mr Frederick Cooper - a man well known in his day for a terrible act of severity performed A by him in ...
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... named Rossaix , one of that large body of his countrymen who had been thrown out of em- ployment by the peace of 1805 , and who dis- FROM CAIRO TO TREBIZOND . 21 persed themselves over the 20 EARLY LIFE AND TRAVELS .
... named Rossaix , one of that large body of his countrymen who had been thrown out of em- ployment by the peace of 1805 , and who dis- FROM CAIRO TO TREBIZOND . 21 persed themselves over the 20 EARLY LIFE AND TRAVELS .
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... body of men whose whole trade consisted of kidnapping children for sale . Eleven tillahs of gold , part of the money found on my would - be purchasers , were handed to me . I gave ten of them to Ibrahim Khan when we parted company a ...
... body of men whose whole trade consisted of kidnapping children for sale . Eleven tillahs of gold , part of the money found on my would - be purchasers , were handed to me . I gave ten of them to Ibrahim Khan when we parted company a ...
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... body , when but one solitary bird has originally scented the carrion . We were warned that we should only be safe until noon the following day , and taking the hint , hurried off , and had hardly got across the river Oxus when a body of ...
... body , when but one solitary bird has originally scented the carrion . We were warned that we should only be safe until noon the following day , and taking the hint , hurried off , and had hardly got across the river Oxus when a body of ...
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... body of horse to guard all the Bamian passes . By a clever ruse , and by making some of our people personate some sowars of Dost Muhammad Khan and misinform other bodies of his troops , we induced the lady's escort to divert their route ...
... body of horse to guard all the Bamian passes . By a clever ruse , and by making some of our people personate some sowars of Dost Muhammad Khan and misinform other bodies of his troops , we induced the lady's escort to divert their route ...
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Soldier and Traveller: Memories [i.e. Memoirs] of Alexander Gardner, Colonel ... Alexander Haughton Campbell Gardner Visualização de excertos - 1970 |
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adventurer Afghan Afghanistan Allard Amir arrived artillery attacked Author Avitabile Badakshan Bolor British brother Captain cavalry Cheaper Edition chief Chitral cloth Colonel Gardner command Court Crown 8vo death Demy 8vo Dogra Dost Muhammad Khan English Fcap French Gulab Singh guns Habib-ulla Khan hand Harlan Hazara Hindu Kush Hira Singh History honour horses India Indus infantry Jammu Jindan JOHN journey Kabul Kafiristan Kafirs Kashmir Khaibar Khalsa Kharrak Singh Kirghiz Kunduz Lahore LL.D Maharaja Ranjit Singh Maharaja Sher Singh Minister mountain Muhammadan murdered Nao Nihal Singh officers OLIPHANT Pamir Panjab party passed Peshawar Portrait Post 8vo Prince Professor Raja Dhyan Singh regiment regions returned Revised river Royal ruler rupees sardars Scotland Second Edition Shah Sher Singh Shighnan Sikh army Sir Henry soldier Suchet Singh sword Syad Ahmad Therbah Third Edition took travelling tribe troops Urd Khan Ventura vols Wazirabad William Blackwood Yarkand
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