Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, January 19, 1895

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, January 19, 1895The island of Seringapatam is without exaggeration one...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, January 19, 1895

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, January 19, 1895

€6,30

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, January 19, 1895

€6,30
Author: Various
Format: eBook
Language: English

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, January 19, 1895

The island of Seringapatam is without exaggeration one of the fairest jewels in the imperial diadem of our world-wide possessions. Embosomed in the blue and sparkling wavelets of the Pacific Ocean, breathed upon by the spicy breezes that waft their intoxicating perfumes through endless groves of gigantic acacias, feathery fern trees, and gorgeously coloured Indian acanthoids; studded with the glittering domes of a profusion of jasper palaces beside which the trumpery splendours of Windsor or Versailles are but as dust, and guarded by the loyal devotion of an ancient warrior race noted not less for the supreme beauty of its women than for the matchless courage and endurance of its men, the Kingdom of Seringapatam offered during a period of more than one hundred years a stubborn resistance even to the arms of the all-conquering Britons. So great indeed, was the respect extorted from the victors by the vanquished that when, owing to the marvellous strategy of my old friend Major-General Sir Bonamy Battlehorn, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., the island was finally subdued, it was agreed that in all but their acknowledgment of a British Suzerainty and the payment of an annual tribute of fifteen hundred gold lakhs, the proud islanders were to maintain their independence and to continue those forms of government which long tradition had invested in their eyes with all the sanctity of a religion. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 42480
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Editor: Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836-1917

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