The Annual Register, Volume 140Edmund Burke Rivingtons, 1899 Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year. |
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... troops advancing from the north against the Mahdist Dervishes . In that quarter , however , we were steadily consolidating the results of a success- ful campaign , and accustoming the Egyptian troops to face the Dervishes without ...
... troops advancing from the north against the Mahdist Dervishes . In that quarter , however , we were steadily consolidating the results of a success- ful campaign , and accustoming the Egyptian troops to face the Dervishes without ...
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... troops , British and native , have overcome the almost insuperable difficulties of the country in which they were operating ; but I have to de- plore the loss of many valuable lives both amongst my own troops and those whose services ...
... troops , British and native , have overcome the almost insuperable difficulties of the country in which they were operating ; but I have to de- plore the loss of many valuable lives both amongst my own troops and those whose services ...
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... troops ; and he did not consider it was for the interest of this country to embark in the reconquest of the Soudan , which had never yielded enough revenue to cover the cost of its government . He was not averse to the extension of our ...
... troops ; and he did not consider it was for the interest of this country to embark in the reconquest of the Soudan , which had never yielded enough revenue to cover the cost of its government . He was not averse to the extension of our ...
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... troops in Chitral and the neighbourhood was a constant affront to independent tribes and a perpetual challenge to an attack . This was the real reason for their rising , and that reason was not to be found only in religious fanaticism ...
... troops in Chitral and the neighbourhood was a constant affront to independent tribes and a perpetual challenge to an attack . This was the real reason for their rising , and that reason was not to be found only in religious fanaticism ...
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... troops were in the Chitral district now , how many British troops would be required to replace the native levies , how many more forts were to be constructed in the Swat Valley , and how we were going to justify the strain on the ...
... troops were in the Chitral district now , how many British troops would be required to replace the native levies , how many more forts were to be constructed in the Swat Valley , and how we were going to justify the strain on the ...
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