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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... tion , for no sooner had the Russian tchinovnik dis- appeared from the scene of his action , than the Kirghis chief forgot his oath of fidelity , as well as the rich presents he had received from the White Padishah of the Neva . Russia ...
... tion , for no sooner had the Russian tchinovnik dis- appeared from the scene of his action , than the Kirghis chief forgot his oath of fidelity , as well as the rich presents he had received from the White Padishah of the Neva . Russia ...
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... tion of the foe vanquished by her , but was also looked upon by the adjacent khanates in a far better light than had been hitherto the case , since , accord- ing to Tartar notions , conquest was identical with murder , plunder and ...
... tion of the foe vanquished by her , but was also looked upon by the adjacent khanates in a far better light than had been hitherto the case , since , accord- ing to Tartar notions , conquest was identical with murder , plunder and ...
第 28 頁
... tion of Ashurada Russians were by no means strangers amongst the Yomuts and Goklans . Having duly reconnoitered the country , the proper move against the Turkomans began only after the subjuga- tion of the three khanates , and ...
... tion of Ashurada Russians were by no means strangers amongst the Yomuts and Goklans . Having duly reconnoitered the country , the proper move against the Turkomans began only after the subjuga- tion of the three khanates , and ...
第 33 頁
... tion from the inveterate enemy and terrible plague came only from the hand of a Christian ruler , from Russia , which now was called the real redeemer of half of Persia . It will remain an ever deplorable fact , that England , by whose ...
... tion from the inveterate enemy and terrible plague came only from the hand of a Christian ruler , from Russia , which now was called the real redeemer of half of Persia . It will remain an ever deplorable fact , that England , by whose ...
第 54 頁
... tion of 100,000 of the best irregular cavalry in the world , at a week's march from the city of Herat . It means the meeting , for the first time , of the Cossack and the Afghan . It means the complete enclosure of Khiva within the ...
... tion of 100,000 of the best irregular cavalry in the world , at a week's march from the city of Herat . It means the meeting , for the first time , of the Cossack and the Afghan . It means the complete enclosure of Khiva within the ...
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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