The Coming Struggle for India: Being an Account of the Encroachments of Russia in Central Asia, and of the Difficulties Sure to Arise Therefrom to EnglandCassell, 1885 - 214 頁 |
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... , Russia turned her attention partly to the East , partly to the West . In both directions she earned unexpected success . In the East she appeared as the representative of Europe two centuries ago , and , armed B 2 THE WAY TO TASHKEND . 3.
... , Russia turned her attention partly to the East , partly to the West . In both directions she earned unexpected success . In the East she appeared as the representative of Europe two centuries ago , and , armed B 2 THE WAY TO TASHKEND . 3.
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... centuries ago , and , armed with the superior arms of that time , she managed to conquer vast multitudes with a comparatively small number of men . Siberia was conquered in the sixteenth century , and when Kutchum Khan , after having ...
... centuries ago , and , armed with the superior arms of that time , she managed to conquer vast multitudes with a comparatively small number of men . Siberia was conquered in the sixteenth century , and when Kutchum Khan , after having ...
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... succeeded in skirting the western frontier of the Kirghis country from the Lesser Horde to the Aral lake and to the Yaxartes . It was the work of two centuries , accomplished in a wonderful way THE WAY TO TASHKEND . 5.
... succeeded in skirting the western frontier of the Kirghis country from the Lesser Horde to the Aral lake and to the Yaxartes . It was the work of two centuries , accomplished in a wonderful way THE WAY TO TASHKEND . 5.
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... centuries , accomplished in a wonderful way , with that characteristic Muscovite tenacity , cunning , and recklessness , which have wrought so many wonders and surprises to the western world . The Kirghises , numbering beyond three ...
... centuries , accomplished in a wonderful way , with that characteristic Muscovite tenacity , cunning , and recklessness , which have wrought so many wonders and surprises to the western world . The Kirghises , numbering beyond three ...
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... the Turkomans . Exposed for centuries to the irruptions of these reckless nomads , the peaceful and industrious inhabitants of Iran had vainly looked for assistance to their king and government ; the round 32 THE COMING STRUGGLE FOR INDIA .
... the Turkomans . Exposed for centuries to the irruptions of these reckless nomads , the peaceful and industrious inhabitants of Iran had vainly looked for assistance to their king and government ; the round 32 THE COMING STRUGGLE FOR INDIA .
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第 60 頁 - to push forward its encroachments as fast and as far as the apathy or want of firmness of other Governments would allow it to go, but always to stop and retire when it was met with decided resistance, and then to wait for the next favourable opportunity to make another spring on its intended victim. In furtherance of this policy, the Russian
第 61 頁 - Petersburg Government adopts them as a fait accompli which it did not intend, but cannot in honour recede from. If the local agents fail, they are disavowed and recalled, and the language previously held is appealed to as a proof that the agents have overstepped their instructions. This was exemplified in the treaty of Unkiar-Skelessi, and in the exploits of
第 61 頁 - in Persia. Orloff succeeded in extorting the treaty of Unkiar-Skelessi from the Turks, and it was represented as a sudden thought, suggested by the circumstances of the time and place, and not the result of any previous instructions; but, having been done, it could not be undone. On the other hand,
第 176 頁 - annas) each, or about the average earnings of five working days. Traders pay 3s. 3d. (26 annas) each. But any native of India who does not trade or own land, and who chooses to drink no spirituous liquor or to use no English cloth or iron, need pay in taxation only about 7d. a year on account of the salt he consumes
第 84 頁 - to the Persian frontier, in the neighbourhood of Sarakhs, should be formally and definitely laid down, and that he had instructed Prince Lobanoff to endeavour to induce her Majesty's Government to agree to the adoption of measures for that purpose.
第 147 頁 - It will be in the end our duty to organise masses of Asiatic cavalry, and to hurl them into India, under the banner of blood and pillage, as a vanguard, as it were, thus reviving the times of Tamerlane.
第 157 頁 - in India, except that great majority of the cultivators who will go on cultivating without talking politics till the crack of doom ? Every Englishman, from the Governor-General downwards, will be disquieted ; they will feel that a great foreign Power has
第 61 頁 - failed in getting possession of Herat, in consequence of our vigorous measures of resistance ; and as they had failed they were disavowed and recalled, and the language previously held at
第 63 頁 - of 53 companies of infantry, 25 sotnias of Cossacks, 54 guns, 6 mortars, 2 mitrailleuses, 5 rocket divisions, and 19,200 camels, with a complement of about 14,000 men,
第 157 頁 - on his own side of the fence, and he may make no seeming attempt to come over; but you know he is there for no good, and you do your best to dislodge him, and do not rest