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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... conquerors , had not interfered , and delayed the growth of the national body . Among these drawbacks we reckon the irruption of the Mon- gols under Djenghis Khan , and the great war under Timur , both of them historical events which ...
... conquerors , had not interfered , and delayed the growth of the national body . Among these drawbacks we reckon the irruption of the Mon- gols under Djenghis Khan , and the great war under Timur , both of them historical events which ...
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... conqueror and the 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 ...
... conqueror and the 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 ...
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... conqueror and those of the 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 ...
... conqueror and those of the 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 ...
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... conquerors could boast of . 7 The Turkomans , numbering about a million of souls , justly enjoyed in antiquity , and do still at pre- sent , the fame of being the best horsemen and the most valiant warriors all over Asia . Having lived ...
... conquerors could boast of . 7 The Turkomans , numbering about a million of souls , justly enjoyed in antiquity , and do still at pre- sent , the fame of being the best horsemen and the most valiant warriors all over Asia . Having lived ...
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... conqueror . Russian dresses are becoming the fashion of the day , Russian drinks get more and more into favour , every man of note strives to learn the Russian language , D and there is no exaggeration in saying that Russia has MATERIAL ...
... conqueror . Russian dresses are becoming the fashion of the day , Russian drinks get more and more into favour , every man of note strives to learn the Russian language , D and there is no exaggeration in saying that Russia has MATERIAL ...
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