A Popular History of England: From the Earliest Times to the Accession of Victoria, Volumen5D. Estes and C. E. Lauriat, 1881 |
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... Soldier • Charge of the Light Brigade View of Sevastopol Capture of the Malakoff • Fortress of Kars PAGE 14 · 14 16 35 40 46 56 56 90 101 106 108 · 110 115 136 148 151 172 177 · 179 205 214 230 232 Scene in a Chinese Harbor Pagoda ...
... Soldier • Charge of the Light Brigade View of Sevastopol Capture of the Malakoff • Fortress of Kars PAGE 14 · 14 16 35 40 46 56 56 90 101 106 108 · 110 115 136 148 151 172 177 · 179 205 214 230 232 Scene in a Chinese Harbor Pagoda ...
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... soldiers greeted his passage through the streets . This condition of public feeling soon manifested itself openly . Dost Mohammed himself had made more than one effort to re- cover his lost throne ; he had distinguished himself by his ...
... soldiers greeted his passage through the streets . This condition of public feeling soon manifested itself openly . Dost Mohammed himself had made more than one effort to re- cover his lost throne ; he had distinguished himself by his ...
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... soldiers , most of them . Asiatics , and twelve thousand English or Indian camp - followers . Some officers ' wives and a number of children made part of this sad band . The Afghans had at first proposed to retain the women as hostages ...
... soldiers , most of them . Asiatics , and twelve thousand English or Indian camp - followers . Some officers ' wives and a number of children made part of this sad band . The Afghans had at first proposed to retain the women as hostages ...
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... soldiers drop- ping behind and falling under the severity of the cold . Finally the English gave way , one after another , until in the pass of Jugdulluk , barricaded by branches and trunks of trees , and held by the enemy , a massacre ...
... soldiers drop- ping behind and falling under the severity of the cold . Finally the English gave way , one after another , until in the pass of Jugdulluk , barricaded by branches and trunks of trees , and held by the enemy , a massacre ...
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... soldier's heroism General Sale found what consolation was possible . " I propose , " he said , " to hold this place on the part of government until I receive its order to the contrary . " Akbar Khan immediately laid siege to the town ...
... soldier's heroism General Sale found what consolation was possible . " I propose , " he said , " to hold this place on the part of government until I receive its order to the contrary . " Akbar Khan immediately laid siege to the town ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 362 - ... the banner which we now carry in this fight, though perhaps at some moment it may droop over our sinking heads, yet it soon again will float in the eye of Heaven, and it will be borne by the firm hands of the united people of the three kingdoms, perhaps not to an easy, but to a certain and to a not far distant victory.
Página 132 - England; and whether, as the Roman in days of old, held himself free from indignity when he could say "Civis Romanus sum" (I am a Roman citizen), so also a British subject, in whatever land he may be, shall feel confident that the watchful eye and the strong arm of England will protect him against injustice and wrong.
Página 334 - Alabama claims. And whereas Her Britannic Majesty has authorized her High Commissioners and Plenipotentiaries to express in a friendly spirit the regret felt by Her Majesty's Government for the escape, under whatever circumstances, of the Alabama and other vessels from British ports, and for the depredations committed by those vessels.
Página 334 - First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruis* or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace...
Página 334 - Queen, and the others respectively by the President of the United States, the King of Italy, the President of the Swiss Confederation, and the Emperor of Brazil.
Página 136 - Your beloved country has received a place among the fair churches which, normally constituted, form the splendid aggregate of Catholic communion ; Catholic England has been restored to its orbit in the ecclesiastical firmament from which its light had long vanished, and begins now anew its course of regularly adjusted action round the centre of unity, the source of jurisdiction, of light, and of vigour.
Página 365 - Your attention will again be called to the state of the representation of the people in Parliament ; and I trust that your deliberations, conducted in a spirit of moderation and mutual forbearance, may lead to the adoption of measures which, without unduly disturbing the balance of political power, shall freely extend the elective franchise.
Página 28 - In the discussion which followed in the House of Commons, Sir Robert Peel observed that her Majesty had 'the singular good fortune to be able to gratify her private feelings, while she performs her public duty, and to obtain the best guarantee for happiness by contracting an alliance founded on affection.
Página 236 - In the House of Lords, lord Kingston moved for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the state of the Protestant church in the province of Munster.
Página 236 - an insolent barbarian, wielding authority at Canton, violated the British flag, broke the engagements of treaties, offered rewards for the heads of British subjects in that part of China, and planned their destruction by murder, assassination, and poison.