Author: William Napier

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-05-28

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9780282118402

Excerpt from History of General Sir Charles Napier's Administration of Scinde, and Campaign in the Cutchee Hills When the History of Sir C. Napier's Conquest of Scinde was.published, an account of his after administration in that country was promised as a sequel; hence the present work, whichincludes also his campaign against the hillmen of Cutchee. It is dedicated? As the History of the Conquest was, to the British people, because from the people only can support be looked for against the um ceasing efforts made to suppress the just claims of a victorious general, 'and successful administrator, to the applause of his countrymen. But to obtain that support ingenuously, the man's thoughts as well as his actions should be made known'with all integrity - wherefore his opinions of government generally, of particular systems, and his views and feelings on every important occasion, have been, where the necessity of compression would admit, recorded in his own words. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.