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Life of Lord Lawrence

1883

under all.its circumstancespin the historic interest attaching to the pity in the strength the numbers and the resoureoe of the besieged in the weakness the:Privotions the difficulties of the handful of men who perched on a ridge at one corner of its vast circumference with their ?ear and both their flanks:exposed p attack. called themselves its besiegers ' finally in the mtnaentous stake [...] Finally there was the hope of plundering the revolted city the home of the Mogul mid& the Mal of the Con:piny. [...] 1857 no less than by the irresistible march of even\ almost the powers of the Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in one was to praise and to condemn to punish and to reward to command and to forbid to stimulate every enterprise to santion every appointment to direct every movement of troops frem the gloomy portals of the Khyber even to the ridge before Delhi.' The absence of Sir Jo [...] rerhaps it was also well that the telegraphic commvication between Lahore and liftwulfindi was interrupted foil the time and that the messte which flashed to the capital of the Punjabi early on Tuesday morning May 12 pie news of the capture of Delhi by the mutineers did ndt reach the Chief Commisioner by the same rqute. [...] the masterly batch of letters extraordinary alike in their quality and in their~ quantity which he wrote on the following dub to the Commander-in-Chief at Simla to the'Commissioner atPeshawur to the Brigadier-General at l'esiiawur to the Brigadier in commend of the Frontier force and to the Governor-General.
history
Pages
646
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142641
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xv R. Smith view
Chapter I. The Hour and the Man
1-41 unknown view
Chapter II. Mutiny-Policy of John Lawrence
42-83 unknown view
Chapter III. The Punjab and Delhi
84-133 unknown view
Chapter IV. Abandonment of Bebhawur
134-165 unknown view
Chapter V. Siege and Capture of Delhi
166-229 unknown view
Chapter VI. John Lawrence as A Conqueror
230-266 unknown view
Chapter VII. John Lawrence as A Pacification
267-326 unknown view
Chapter VIII. Recognition of Services
327-357 unknown view
Chapter IX. Home Life in England
358-388 unknown view
Chapter X. John Lawrence as Viceroy of India. 1864
389-441 unknown view
Chapter XI. The Great Durbar at Lahore
442-456 unknown view
Chapter XII. The Viceroyalty. 1865-1866
457-510 unknown view
Chapter XIII. The Viceroyalty.—Continued. 1867-1868
511-546 unknown view
Chapter XIV. Tenant-Right and Foreign Policy. 1864-69
547-595 unknown view
Chapter XV. Last Years of Lord Lawrence 1869-1879
596-630 unknown view

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