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Life of Lord Lawrence

1885

Among the Scoto-Irish there have been found men who have combined in their own persons much of the rich humour and the strong affections the vivacity and the versatility the genius and the generosity of the typical IriShman with the patience and the prudence the devotion and the self-reliance VOL. [...] If John Lawrence had in his best days the strength and the courage of a giant happily for the interest of his biography he had also something of the rough humour of the boisterous pranks of the wild spirit of adventure which we usually associate with the Norwegian Troll. [...] 1811-29 In the miniature of the brave old veteran which belongs to Sir George Lawrence hig eldest surviving son besides the deep lines on the face which are a distinguishing mark of the Lawrence family and which are now known to the world in the features of the subject of this biography may be noticed on the right cheek the traces of a deep sabre-cut received in one of his earlier engagements [...] There were about a hundred boys in the school the boarders being chiefly the sons of the clergy and gentry of the adjoining counties ; the day scholars the sons of the citizens of Derry. [...] The boy who thus held his tongue and thought in silence was the `father of the man' who as we shall see hereafter when a telegram arrived reporting the outbreak of the Mutiny spoke not a word either then or on the whole of that day to the friend and high official who was with him but consumed his own thoughts in silence estimating the full gravity of the crisis and pondering the methods by
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Pages
555
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.145808
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Frontmatter
i-xiii R. Bosworth Smith view
Chapter I. Early Life. 1811-1829
1-28 R. Bosworth Smith view
Chapter II. Life at Delhi. 1829-1834
29-41 R. Bosworth Smith view
Chapter III. Life and Adventures at Paniput. 1834-1837
42-75 R. Bosworth Smith view
Chapter IV. Life and Adventures at Gorgaon and Etawa. 1837-1840
76-113 R. Bosworth Smith view
Chapter V. Furlough and Marriage. 1840-1842
114-130 R. Bosworth Smith view
Chapter VI. The Afgan War. 1838-1842
131-140 R. Bosworth Smith view
Chapter VII. Magistrate of Delhi; and First Sikh War. 1842-1846
141-168 R. Bosworth Smith view
Chapter VIII. Commissioner of Trans-Sutlej States. 1846
169-182 R. Bosworth Smith view
Chapter IX. Acting-Resident at Lahore. 1846-1848
183-207 R. Bosworth Smith view
Chapter X. The Second Sikh War. 1848
208-242 R. Bosworth Smith view
Chapter XI. The Work of the Punjab Board. 1849-1852
243-275 R. Bosworth Smith view
Chapter XII. Henry and John Lawrence. 1849-1S52
276-336 R. Bosworth Smith view
Chapter XIII. Chief Commissioner of the Punjab. 1852-1853
337-389 R. Bosworth Smith view
Chapter XIV. Relations with his Chief and his Subordinates. 1854-1856
390-433 R. Bosworth Smith view
Chapter XV. John Lawrence and Afghanistan. The Brewing of the Storm. 1856-1857
434-467 R. Bosworth Smith view
Chapter XVI. The Hour and the Man. May-June 1857
468-504 R. Bosworth Smith view
Chapter XVII. Mutiny-Policy of John Lawrence. May-June 1857
505-542 R. Bosworth Smith view

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