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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... native people was a bloody and protracted one ; and the butchery at Namangan , an engagement in which the afterwards famous General Skobeleff won his spurs , surpasses all the accounts hitherto given of Russian cruelty . Similar scenes ...
... native people was a bloody and protracted one ; and the butchery at Namangan , an engagement in which the afterwards famous General Skobeleff won his spurs , surpasses all the accounts hitherto given of Russian cruelty . Similar scenes ...
第 23 頁
... native defenders ? Take the gun , for instance . The Russian is armed with a good modern rifle , and his gunpowder is of the best , whilst the poor Tartar has nothing but an old and rusty gun which rests on a kind of wooden fork ...
... native defenders ? Take the gun , for instance . The Russian is armed with a good modern rifle , and his gunpowder is of the best , whilst the poor Tartar has nothing but an old and rusty gun which rests on a kind of wooden fork ...
第 24 頁
... natives of Central Asia from a vigorous defence of an invading power . Bokhara may well be taken for the leading state in Central Asia ; but her influence over the neighbouring khanates was never of such an extent as to rally the ...
... natives of Central Asia from a vigorous defence of an invading power . Bokhara may well be taken for the leading state in Central Asia ; but her influence over the neighbouring khanates was never of such an extent as to rally the ...
第 39 頁
... natives and the foreign con- queror . They could penetrate unmolested even to the far outlying parts of the Akhal country , for the Turkoman , once vanquished and sincerely submitting , would not touch any of the solitary travellers ...
... natives and the foreign con- queror . They could penetrate unmolested even to the far outlying parts of the Akhal country , for the Turkoman , once vanquished and sincerely submitting , would not touch any of the solitary travellers ...
第 58 頁
... natives ( subject to England ) ; as to the soil it must be placed in the same dependence upon Russia in which it now is as to England , we must take the entire commerce into our hands . " In the letter of January 13 , 1801 , we read ...
... natives ( subject to England ) ; as to the soil it must be placed in the same dependence upon Russia in which it now is as to England , we must take the entire commerce into our hands . " In the letter of January 13 , 1801 , we read ...
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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