| 1847 - 632 pages
...half a dozen foreigners taking up a lately subdued mutinous army through as difficult a country as is in the world to put the chief, formerly their commander,...in possession of the brightest gem of their land. Konian History tells no such tales — shews no such instantaneous fellowship of the vanquished with... | |
| Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence - 1859 - 528 pages
...unpleasant theme to dilate on the Cashmere campaign, on the extraordinary fact, never before witnessed, of half a dozen foreigners taking up a lately-subdued...in possession of the brightest gem of their land. Roman history tells no such tales — shows no such instantaneous fellowship of the vanquished with... | |
| John Clark Marshman - 1867 - 516 pages
...foreigners taking up a lately subdued mutinous soldiery, through one of the most difficult countries in the world, to put the chief, formerly their commander,...possession of the brightest gem of their land." The energy and promptitude of this movement ensured its success. The refractory Imam-ood-deeu made his... | |
| Lionel James Trotter - 1898 - 378 pages
...extraordinary spectacle, to use Lawrence's own words, ' of half a dozen foreigners taking up a lately subdued mutinous army through as difficult a country as there...rebel, in possession of the brightest gem of their land '.' Among the few Englishmen who accompanied Lawrence on this truly hazardous errand was his new friend... | |
| Lionel James Trotter - 1898 - 372 pages
...extraordinary spectacle, to use Lawrence's own words, ' of half a dozen foreigners taking up a lately subdued mutinous army through as difficult a country as there...rebel, in possession of the brightest gem of their land1.' Among the few Englishmen who accompanied Lawrence on this truly hazardous errand was his new... | |
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