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1890
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Ballantyne Press BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO.
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
CONTENTS
OF
THE SIXTH VOLUME.
CHAPTER XXI V.
THE CRIMEIN WAR.
PAGE
I
27
2
28
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30
32
33
35
Russia.
Turkey
Montenegro
The Holy Places .
The French Demand
The attempted Compromise
Russia and the French Republic.
Russia and the Second Empire
Afif Bey's Mission
Aberdeen and Nicholas
Nicholas' Conversations with sir
H. Seymour
The British Attempt to arrange
the Dispute
Stratford de Redcliffe at Constanti-
nople
Menschikoff at Constantinople
His Withdrawal .
The Conduct of the Aberdeen
Cabinet
The Fleet sent to the Dardanelles
The Vienna Note
The Points at Issue
England refuses to support the
Vienna Note
The Dissensions in the Cabinet Lord Stratford's warlike Po-
licy.
The Destruction of the Turkish
Fleet at Sinope
Diplomatic Relations suspended :
1 Fresh Negotiations between the
Western and German Powers
2 The
Ultimatum of February
1854
4 Unanswered by Russia
4 The Baltic Fleet
6 The Campaign on the Danube
6 Russia evacuates the Princi-
8 palities
9 The Expedition to the Crimea
decided on
10 The Expedition sails
The Battle of the Alna
II The Flank March
Menschikoff evacuates Sebastopol 12 Nachimoff, Korniloff, and Todle-
ben 14 The Assault postponed
The Bombardment of the 17th of
15 October
15 The Death of Korniloff
18 | The Strength of the allied Armies
19 The Strength of the Russian
Army
22 The Battle of Balaklava 23 The Charge of the Heavy Brigade
The Charge of the Light Brigade 24 The Battle of the 26th of October
The Battle of Inkerman 25 The altered Conditions of the
27 Campaign
12
36
37
38
39
40
42
43
44
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47 PAGE
58 58
PAGE 1
The Storm of the 14th of November 47 The Accession of Alexander
Difficulties of Transport
48 The New Proposal of Austria
Darase in Camp.
48 Favoured by Drouyn de Lhuys
Tir Condition of the Hospitals
49 and Russell
59
Meeting of Parliament
50 The Resignation of Russell :
Fail of Aberdeen.
50 The Death of Raglan
The Formation of Palmerston's General Simpson succeeds to the
Administration.
51
Command
61
Prospects of Peace
53. Unpopularity of the war in
Roissia and the German Powers
53
France
62
'The Four Points .
54 France and Austria concert Terms
The Crar accepts the Four Points
54
of Peace
The Conference at Vienna 55 which are accepted by England: 63
The Death and Character of The Declaration of Paris
Nicholas .
55. The Results of the War
63
64
65
CHAPTER XXV.
THE SUPREMACY OF THE BRITISH IN INDIA.
91
92
93
94
96
97
.
The History of the British in India
still unwritten
Trade, not Conquest, the first
Object of the earlier Adventurers
Rivai European Powers in India .
The Struggle between French and
English extended to India
Both Combatants seek Native
Help
The Condition of the Native States
The Company's Servants in India,
and its Directors at Home
The Monopoly of the Indian Trade
destroyed .
Further Extensions of Territory
Forbidden
Lord Cornwallis .
Sir John Shore
Lord Wellesley
The War with Tippoo.
The Nabob of the Carnatic.
Zemaun Shah
Wellesley's Treatment of Oudh
The Mahrattas
Scindia
Holkar
The First Mahratta War
The War of 1804 with Holkar
The Retreat of Monson
The Siege of Bhurtpore,
Wellesley's Operations disap-
proved in England
He is superseded by Cornwallis
The Death oi Cornwallis
Lord Minto made Governor-
68 General
The North-Western Frontier of
69 India
70 Runjeet Singh
The Mission to Runjeet Singh
70 The Mission to Afghanistan
The Missions to Persia
71 The Internal Administration of
72
India
The Land Settlement of Bengal :
72 Munro founds the Ryotwaree
System
73 Cornwallis's Judicial Reforms
The Civil Service of India
73 The Sale of Offices
74 The Institution of a Police Force.
76 Dacoits
36 Lord Moira made Governor-
77
General
77 The Ghoorkas
78 The Nepaulese War
79 The Repulse at Kalunga
81 Other Reverses
82 The Situation Retrieved by Och-
83 terlony
84 Central India
85 The Patans and Pindarees
86 Charles Metcalfe .
87 War forbidden by England .
The Pindarees' Raid of 1816
88 The third Mahratta War
88 The War with the Peishwa .
90 | Appa Sahib defeated
99
100
IOI
102
104
105
107
108
109
II2
114
I14
115
116
118 120
ral
Toolsye Bhye murdered
119 The Death of Ochterlony
129
Holkar defeated and the Pindarees The Capture of Bhurtpore
broken up
119 Amherst recalied and Lord W.
The Results of the War
120 Bentinck made Governor-Gene-
The Cholera
130
The Policy of the War and the
The Necessity of Retrenchment
133
Conduct of Moira
121 Batta
Moira's Policy opposed to his pre- Other Economies
135
vious Opinions.
122 Bentinck’s Employment of Native
He is succeeded by Canning 123 Agency
Lord Amherst made Governor- The Assessment in the North
T 24 West
136
The Burmese Empire
124 Flogging in the Indian Army 137
The Frontier Raids and their 'The Abolition of Suttee
Consequences
125 The Suppression of 'Thuggee 140
The Island in the Naf:
125 The Government at Home
141
The first Burmese War
126 Lord Ellenborough made Presi.
Rangoon is taken
127 dent of the Board of Control 142
The Conclusion of the War
128 His Views
143
Disturbances in India.
128 The Company's Charter
144
Bhurtpore
128 The Act of 1833 .
138
145
CHAPTER XXV I.
175
AFGHANISTAN, SCINDE, AND THE PUNJAB.
Lord W. Bentinck resigns 147 | The Treaty of the 26th June
Is temporarily succeeded by Met-
1838.
164
calfe
147 | The Proclamation of the ist of
The Press in India under wel
October 1838
165
lesley
148 The Siege of Herat raised
Under Hastings and Adam.
148 Scinde.
167
Silk Buckinghani's Case
149 Auckland's Treatment of Scinde :
168
Metcalfe and Macaulay establish The Conduct of the Ameers
171
a Free Press
149 The Advance of the Army
172
The Right of Appeal for English The Fall of Ghuznee
and Natives
150 The Unpopularity of the War in
Education
151 England
174
Lord Heytesbury made Governor- The Death of Runjeet Singh
152 The Russian Expedition to Khiva 175
The Whig' objection to the
The Surrender of Dost Mahommed 176
Appointment
152 Macnaghten and Cotton succeeded
Russian Influence in Persia .
by Burnes and Elphinstone 178
The Euphrates Route to India 154 The Cantonments
178
Lord Auckland made Governor- Retrenchments in Afghanistan 179
156 | The Rising of the end of November 180
Afghanistan
157 | The Murder of Burnes
181
Alexander Burnes
157 Spread of the Insurrection
182
The Siege of Herat
158 Fresh Disasters
183
Burnes at Cabul .
160 Macnaghten and Elphinstone 183
Vicovitch's Mission to Cabui
161 Pottinger in Kohistan .
184
Auckland at Simla
161 The Treaty of the 11th of December 185
His Decision to dethrone Dost
Macnaghten's Murder.
Mahonimed
162 The Treaty of the ist of January
Macnaghten's Mission to Lahore: 163 1842.
186
153