Military Service and Adventures in the Far East: Vol. 2 (of 2)

Military Service and Adventures in the Far East: Vol. 2 (of 2) - Including Sketches of the Campaigns Against the Afghans in 1839, and the Sikhs in 1845-6.

After the breaking up of the army of the Indus, Sir John Keane proceeded down the Indus, and shortly afterwards embarked for England, where those honours, titles, and pecuniary rewards awaited him, which would have entitled him to the appellation of one of the most fortunate soldiers who ever acquired laurels in Indiahad he survived long to enjoy the distinction. Fortunate, indeed, may Sir John Keane be termed, in having brought to an apparently suc[Pg 2]cessful conclusion a campaign which was founded in error and injustice, and placed in the hands of the commander-in-chief with the fullest assurance of the directing arm of Providence leading the small band through a country of which the little that was known should have induced a supposition that an army provided with an insufficient amount of supplies must meet with enormous difficulties. By some unaccountable fatality, the Afghans neglected the advantages thus afforded them, and thereby induced a supposition that the warlike spirit of the tribes who had overrun and conquered Hindostan had departed for ever; and that a handful of British soldiers would be sufficient to maintain possession of a country inhabited by a nation whose hands were fitted at their birth to the cimeter, and whose eyes, when capable of distinguishing objects with accuracy, were directed along the barrel of a rifle. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 57350
Author: MacKinnon, Daniel Henry
Release Date: Jun 18, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English