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The change of name from Wesley to Wellesley , which will be observed in this extract , but which is afterwards stated by Mr. Gleig , at page 16 of the People's Edition , ' to have occurred in India , * can certainly not have produced so ...
The change of name from Wesley to Wellesley , which will be observed in this extract , but which is afterwards stated by Mr. Gleig , at page 16 of the People's Edition , ' to have occurred in India , * can certainly not have produced so ...
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for some hours every day ; and alluded to his having commenced acting upon this rule before he went to India , and to his having continued to act upon it . This is a fact that , I apprehend , is unknown as to the Duke of Wellington ...
for some hours every day ; and alluded to his having commenced acting upon this rule before he went to India , and to his having continued to act upon it . This is a fact that , I apprehend , is unknown as to the Duke of Wellington ...
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When the regiment ein barked for India , in April , 1796 , he was unable , from illness , to accompany it . He overtook it , however , at the Cape of Good Hope , and taking passage with Sir Pulteney ( then Captain ) Malcolm in the Fox ...
When the regiment ein barked for India , in April , 1796 , he was unable , from illness , to accompany it . He overtook it , however , at the Cape of Good Hope , and taking passage with Sir Pulteney ( then Captain ) Malcolm in the Fox ...
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He set to work again as soon as he reached India , to acquire information , not only as to the military situation , but also in regard to the political relations of the Company . Having learnt all he could in Bengal , he visited his old ...
He set to work again as soon as he reached India , to acquire information , not only as to the military situation , but also in regard to the political relations of the Company . Having learnt all he could in Bengal , he visited his old ...
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... heard of on that side of India , and General Harris wrote of them privately to the Governor - General in terms of high commendation . But there the matter ended . ' † 27th February , 1799 , Supplementary Despatches , ' vol . i . p .
... heard of on that side of India , and General Harris wrote of them privately to the Governor - General in terms of high commendation . But there the matter ended . ' † 27th February , 1799 , Supplementary Despatches , ' vol . i . p .
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 120 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1866 |
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