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British India, already plagued by revolts for over five years, completely collapsed into a Free Indian Republic in the north, proclaimed in Calcutta, a Indian-alignedRepublic of Burma,proclaimed in Rangoon, and the remnants of the British administration in Southern India, consisting of the former...
Shortly after midnight on 18 June 1996, the Death Eaters lured Harry and five other Dumbledore's Army members into the deserted Ministry. A battle broke out over the prophecy concerning Harry and the Dark Lord. The D.A. members did well holding the Death Eaters at bay until help could ...
The army is the thunder of the Crown. The Ministry have tied up the hand which should direct the bolt. My Lords, I remember that Minorca was lost for want of four battalions. They could not be spared from hence; and there was a delicacy about taking them from Ireland. I was one of...
On 31 October this tall, thin figure introduced himself as a major in the North Korean People's Army and announced that the civilians, along with a column of American POWs, would depart the Manpo area and undertake a military-style march. All supporting sticks were taken away on the pretex...
army was standing on the defensive in Portugal, with difficulty holding its own; the nation was trembling for its safety. The dreaded Bonaparte's next movement was uncertain: it was feared that it might be against our own shores. Rumour was busy with alarms. All through the country men ...
Some seventy-five per cent of the students had been born outside England and hoped to follow their fathers in the British Army. They were prepared to become a part of the imperial machine of Britain. At the end of the book Stalky, one of the leading characters of Stalky & Co., is ...
Usually, however, it provided about half of British India’s gross annual revenue, or roughly the money needed to support the army. The second most lucrative source of revenue at that time was the government’s continued monopoly over the flourishing opium trade to China; the third was the ...
Usually, however, it provided about half of British India’s gross annual revenue, or roughly the money needed to support the army. The second most lucrative source of revenue at that time was the government’s continued monopoly over the flourishing opium trade to China; the third was the ...
But a war with Gwalior in December 1843, designed to keep its large army out of hostile hands, frustrated these plans, and the directors, exasperated by Ellenborough’s arrogant self-will, resolved in April 1844 to recall him. On his return he was created an earl and viscount. Ellenborough...