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The Life and Letters of Sir John Hall

1911

In the case of the individual Sir John Hall's steady performance of duty carried him from the lowest to the highest rung on the ladder of promotion : it gained for him the appreciation"PREFACE ix of his Sovereign and the respect of his companions in arms. [...] In the body of the Cathedral are one or two good paintings and the dooway of the transept is considered very fines In the Sacristy are shown the rich vestments of the priesthood one or two illuminated missals and the standards borne by the Spanish Army when it entered Granada in 1492 as well as some taken from the Moors in the course of the %var. [...] " The origin of the waters from the Darro to supply the"24 THE MOORS palace and gardens of the Generalipe the palace foutains cisterns and gardens of the Alhambra and the greater part of the city is deserving of a visit. [...] The manner of travelling described and the state of the roads give some idea of the disorganization of the country and of the weakness of the administration. [...] " This superstition is continued amongst the Spaniards to the present day notwithstanding the severe edict of Charles the Fifth and Joanna in 1526 and the symbol is worn by children and on the frontlets of the bridles of their horses to guard against the Evil Eye.
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Pages
593
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.142215
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Frontmatter
i-xxvi S.M. Mitra view
Chapter I Early Service(1815-1836)
1-13 unknown view
Chapter II Gibraltar and Spain (1836-1837)
14-16 unknown view
Chapter III Tour to Granada From Gibraltar (1838)
17-34 unknown view
Chapter IV Spain : Cadiz and Seville (1839)
35-70 unknown view
Chapter V West Indies Again (1841-1844)
71-75 unknown view
Chapter VI A Military Flogging (1846)
76-89 unknown view
Chapter VII South Africa (1846-1847)
90-175 unknown view
Chapter VIII Kafir War (1847)
176-224 unknown view
Chapter IX The Boer Fighting of 1848
225-247 unknown view
Chapter X Life at the Cape (1848-1849)
248-262 unknown view
Chapter XI The Eighth Kafir War of 1850—1852
263-279 unknown view
Chapter XII The Bombay Presidency 1851—1854
280-i unknown view
Chapter XIII The Crimean War (1854)
299-385 unknown view
Chapter XIV The Crimean War— Continued (1855)
386-427 unknown view
Chapter XV The Crimean War—Continued
428-i unknown view
Chapter XVI The Commission of Inquiry (1855-1856)
467-511 unknown view
Chapter XVII Other Views of the Crimean War
512-529 unknown view
Chapter XVIII Last Years
530-544 unknown view
Index
545-560 unknown view

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