General Frederick Young: First Commandant of Sirmur Battalion (Second Gurka Rifles) the Life-story of One of the Old Brigade in India : 1786-1874, Including Reminiscences of Ireland and India in the 'fiftiesG. Routledge & sons, Limited, 1923 - 268 páginas |
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... scenes and of some memor- able days in the early part of my own life . The prologue is a portion of this preface for it tells how , in my old age , I try to pay a tribute to undying memories . I must here acknowledge my great ...
... scenes and of some memor- able days in the early part of my own life . The prologue is a portion of this preface for it tells how , in my old age , I try to pay a tribute to undying memories . I must here acknowledge my great ...
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... scenes that have a fascination for all lovers of true stories- stories far more thrilling in their stern reality than any work of fiction . In doing In doing so I am also tracing the footsteps in success and disaster of one so nearly ...
... scenes that have a fascination for all lovers of true stories- stories far more thrilling in their stern reality than any work of fiction . In doing In doing so I am also tracing the footsteps in success and disaster of one so nearly ...
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... scenes . * On the very day of the conquest by Wellesley of Baroach on the western extremity of the Indian Peninsula - 29th August , 1803 - Lake struck the first important blow on the frontier of Oudh , defeating the principal French ...
... scenes . * On the very day of the conquest by Wellesley of Baroach on the western extremity of the Indian Peninsula - 29th August , 1803 - Lake struck the first important blow on the frontier of Oudh , defeating the principal French ...
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... scene of one hundred and eighteen years ago in which Frederick Young in his seventeenth year bore a part . And at this important juncture I would pause for a retro- spective thought - for indeed we should never forget how In the Central ...
... scene of one hundred and eighteen years ago in which Frederick Young in his seventeenth year bore a part . And at this important juncture I would pause for a retro- spective thought - for indeed we should never forget how In the Central ...
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... scene ! Be- neath a small and ragged canopy , a mockery of regal state , sat one whose age exceeded that usually attained by man , but in whose appearance the lapse of time was less apparent than that of long and hopeless misery . While ...
... scene ! Be- neath a small and ragged canopy , a mockery of regal state , sat one whose age exceeded that usually attained by man , but in whose appearance the lapse of time was less apparent than that of long and hopeless misery . While ...
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Agra army arrived artillery baby Ballysally bank Battalion battle beautiful brave Brigade British bungalow Calcutta called camp cantonment Captain carried Cavalry civil Coleraine Colonel Gillespie colour command course Culdaff Darjeeling dear Delhi Dinapore duty enemy eyes face fact Father followed force Frederick Young gallant gharri give guard guns Gurkha hand Holkar honour horses India Infantry interest Ireland Jack journey Kitty knew Kunjah Laswari leave letter lived looked Lord Lake Lord Minto loved Lucknow memory military morning Mother Murree native never night numbers officers once Palembang Pandies passed Peshawur picture Portstewart Rajah realized recall record regiment remember River Bann road round round shot Sahib scene Sikh Sirmur sister soldier story strong Sutlej things thought took troops Umbeylah voice walk wall wonderful wounded
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Página 97 - That through one window men beheld the spring, And through another saw the summer glow, And through a third the fruited vines a-row, While still, unheard, but in its wonted way, Piped the drear wind of that December day.
Página 94 - When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death, thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers.
Página 40 - The path of duty was the way to glory : He, that ever following her commands, On with toil of heart and knees and hands, Thro...
Página 8 - Of Europe, keep our noble England whole, And save the one true seed of freedom sown Betwixt a people and their ancient throne, That sober freedom out of which there springs...
Página 90 - One seem'd all dark and red— a tract of sand, And some one pacing there alone, Who paced for ever in a glimmering land, Lit with a low large moon.
Página 116 - The heavy trouble, the bewildering care That weighs us down who live and earn our bread, These idle verses have no power to bear; So let me sing of names remembered, Because they, living not, can ne'er be dead, Or long time take their memory quite away From us poor singers of an empty day.
Página 81 - But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned ; if the sword come, and take any person from among...
Página 146 - I take this opportunity of recording my strong and deliberate opinion, that in the exercise of a wise and sound policy the British Government is bound not to put aside or neglect such rightful opportunities of acquiring territory or revenue as may from time to time present themselves...
Página 81 - Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman : 3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people...
Página 40 - Not once or twice in our rough island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory : He that walks it, only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden Love of self, before his journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses.