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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第 2 頁
... western civilisation ; it is the best mark of the superiority of our indomitable European spirit , and of the strength of young Europe compared with old and crumbling Asia . As to Russia , the causes and the course of her conquests were ...
... western civilisation ; it is the best mark of the superiority of our indomitable European spirit , and of the strength of young Europe compared with old and crumbling Asia . As to Russia , the causes and the course of her conquests were ...
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... western Tartars in the Crimea , to those very Nogais with whom Kutchum Khan expected to find a shelter . Here the sway of the Sultan of Turkey had become loosened at that time , and the Empress Catherine plucked fresh laurels for her ...
... western Tartars in the Crimea , to those very Nogais with whom Kutchum Khan expected to find a shelter . Here the sway of the Sultan of Turkey had become loosened at that time , and the Empress Catherine plucked fresh laurels for her ...
第 5 頁
... western border of China to the lake of Issyk Kul , as smoothly and quietly as the Russian outposts 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 ...
... western border of China to the lake of Issyk Kul , as smoothly and quietly as the Russian outposts 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 ...
第 6 頁
... western world . The Kirghises , numbering beyond three millions of souls , and representing the prototype of Turkish nomadic society , offered from the beginning that special mode of resistance we encounter in the case of the nomads of ...
... western world . The Kirghises , numbering beyond three millions of souls , and representing the prototype of Turkish nomadic society , offered from the beginning that special mode of resistance we encounter in the case of the nomads of ...
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... the threatening attacks of our western culture , and in delusive blissfulness quite overlooked the black clouds gathering in the north -clouds which cast their gloomy shadows , even at that 12 THE COMING STRUGGLE FOR INDIA .
... the threatening attacks of our western culture , and in delusive blissfulness quite overlooked the black clouds gathering in the north -clouds which cast their gloomy shadows , even at that 12 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