 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1835 - 638 pages
...retreat to a movement of the same kind, made by Monson. At all events both parties appear to have been afraid of Holkar, and both to have fled from him in different directions. ' I do not think that the Commander in Chief and I have carried on the war so well by our deputies as we did ourselves. ' There... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.) - 1837 - 844 pages
...retreat to a movement of the same kind, made by Monson. At all events both parties appear to have been afraid of Holkar, and both to have fled from him in different directions. ' I do not think that the Commander in Chief and I have carried on the war so well by our deputies as we did ourselves. ' There... | |
 | Basil Jackson - 1840 - 548 pages
...arrived about the middle of August. We are com- CHAP. pelled to pass without notice a vast number of IX' transactions relative to the settlement of the pro-...cloaked under a criticism of Monson's operations. The general likewise addressed a long communication to Colonel Murray containing his opinions, formed after... | |
 | 1852 - 136 pages
...remark, in a private letter to Major Malcolm, that " both appear to have been afraid of Holkar, and to have fled from him in different directions. I do not think," he adds, " that the commander-in-chief and I have carried on the war so well by our deputies as we... | |
 | William Holden Hutton - 1893 - 248 pages
...terror into his ears. Both Murray and Monson, wrote Arthur Wellesley, pithily, ' seem to have been afraid of Holkar, and both to have fled from him in different directions.' Monson turned to retreat. Holkar, whose 'fortune was on the saddle of his horse,' played about him... | |
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At all events both parties appear to have been afraid of Holkar, and both to have fled from him in different directions. ' I do not think that the Commander in Chief and I have carried on the war so well by our deputies as we did ourselves. 