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Kiti leidimai - Peržiūrėti viską
Pagrindiniai terminai ir frazės
advance affairs Army Corps artillery attack Baron Stakelberg battalions batteries battle Britain British Buriat campaign captain cavalry CHAPTER China Chinaman Chinese Colonel command comrades correspondents Cossacks Count Keller Czar despatched dust East enemy field fighting fire fleet foreign Front gate guns Haicheng Harbin headquarters hills honour horses hospital Imperial India infantry Ingria Ivan Ivanovitch Japan Japanese July June June 14 Khiva kiaolang Korea Kuroki Kuropatkin Lama Lanjansan Liao Liao Yang Manchuria Middleton miles military morning mountain Mukden nation Newchwang night o'clock occupied pagoda passed peace Persia Play of Death pony Port Arthur Powers quarters railway rain realised Red Cross regiment retreat road rode Russian army Russian officer shrapnel Siberian Sin Foo soldier sought St Petersburg Staff station strong Tashichao tion Tokio town troops Tsaumatse Viceroy Viceroy Alexeieff Viceroy's Vladivostok Wafangho withdraw wounded Yalu Yang-tse-ling Yellow Sea
Populiarios ištraukos
293 psl. - In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
280 psl. - ... Russian account of the expedition, translated by Mr. Michell, the sore point is laid bare, without any attempt at diplomatic glozing. The object is there stated to be " to establish, not the dominion, but the strong influence of Russia in the neighbouring Khanats, for the reciprocal advantages of trade, and to prevent the influence of the East India Company, so dangerous to Russia, from taking root in Central Asia.
228 psl. - There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them.
270 psl. - To return, if possible, by the same route, unless it be ascertained that there is another and more convenient way by water ; the water-way as well as the land-route to be carefully observed and described in writing, and to be mapped.
262 psl. - Jenkinson was commissioned by the czar to convey a special message to Queen Elizabeth, "that the Queen's Majestic and he might be to all their enemyes joyned as one, and that England and Russland might be in all manners as one." In fact Ivan wanted the assistance of the English in his wars against the Swedes and the Poles ; he could appreciate the superiority of their weapons and military tactics ; but Elizabeth only cared to secure a monopoly of trade, which the...
280 psl. - ... Nicholas proposed an agreement on the subject of Central Asia as well as Turkey. , Already the idea of a " neutral zone " was entertained; a geographical and political idea, which, far from remaining fixed, shifts its ground constantly, and always to move in the direction of India. In 1844, for example, Russia agreed "to leave the Khanates of Central Asia as a neutral zone interposed between the two empires, so as to preserve them from dangerous contact.
264 psl. - London merchants, securing to them the monopoly of trade between the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn for fifteen years.
275 psl. - are preparing to f attack me and my allies, the Swedes and Danes, by / sea and by land. I am ready to receive them. But it is necessary also to attack them where the blow will be most felt, and where it is least expected. You will therefore proceed to India. From Orenburg three months, from your own part of Russia another month —altogether four months. I entrust this expedition entirely to you and your army. Collect your troops in the furthermost stations and await orders to march to Orenburg,...
223 psl. - Skobeleff s in the most enthusiastic manner : — A strict disciplinarian, General Keller demanded efficiency in every grade beneath him. To secure it, he made many changes in the regiments of his forces ; replaced many of the commanders. At his death he commanded an army effective in every branch, ever ready for combat or fatigue, devoted to its leader. His loss cannot be measured in words (p.
91 psl. - He is content to do his duty as he sees it, leaving the extrication of the forces from their difficulties to those placed in authority over him. . . . One's general impression is, that the officers are a set of great-bodied, bighearted, good-natured schoolboys, sadly pestered by the stonethrowing of the small boys from a neighbouring inferior, but rival, academy. I have not heard, in all these weeks of trial, one ungenerous word of their enemy from a Eussian. Judging from eighteen months...