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The battle for Ceylon
During the first decade of the 19th century the struggle for
imperial domination still raged across the globe. Britain and
France were at war as the tide that swept away the Bourbon monarchy
in bloody revolution gained momentum under the genius of Napoleon
Bonaparte and was felt from Europe to the East and West Indies.
Britain in dominating the Indian sub-continent was in conflict with
martial cultures who often had French backing. Here the future Duke
of Wellington would make his name before his greater military
glories in Iberia. The tear-drop shaped island of Ceylon a rich
resource of spice, tea and other exotic trade goods-and a country
which would add another eastern jewel to the imperial crown-had, of
course, not escaped Britain's notice. Predictably, the indigenous
population, particularly in the form of the rulers of the kingdom
of Kandy, took issue with the prospect of British rule and opposed
British Army regular troops, supported by the natives of the
Honourable East India Company's army, with force. This book
recounts a very little reported campaign to subjugate the
Kandyians. It was a savagely a war fought over difficult terrain
and one which did not decide who would rule Ceylon. This book will
fascinate those interested in the history of warfare during the
Napoleonic period and the story of the campaign is supported in
this special Leonaur edition by an historical overview of the
period to provide a first hand account context and understanding of
the wider conflict.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
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The beginnings of modern literary scholarship in Britain are
studied in this volume, which traces the emergence between about
1760 and 1810 in the work of Richard Hurd, Thomas Percy, Thomas
Warton, Joseph Ritson, George Ellis, and Sir Walter Scott of a
serious scholarly approach to the English metrical romances of the
middle ages. These scholars, however, were not concerned solely
with the rediscovery and editing of the original texts which two
centuries of growing antiquarian research had ignored. Almost
without exception men of letters themselves, they desired also to
recover the 'world of fine fabling' in which the classical temper
of the preceding age had preferred the virtues of 'good sense', and
they consciously put their discoveries to the service of modern
poetry, or urged that they should be so used. The consequences of
this were far-reaching, and as he considers in detail the
individual achievements of his principal subjects Dr Johnston does
not neglect to bring out the nature and importance of the
contributions they made to the general culture and literature of
their own day and of the nineteenth century.
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This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.
The battle for Ceylon
During the first decade of the 19th century the struggle for
imperial domination still raged across the globe. Britain and
France were at war as the tide that swept away the Bourbon monarchy
in bloody revolution gained momentum under the genius of Napoleon
Bonaparte and was felt from Europe to the East and West Indies.
Britain in dominating the Indian sub-continent was in conflict with
martial cultures who often had French backing. Here the future Duke
of Wellington would make his name before his greater military
glories in Iberia. The tear-drop shaped island of Ceylon a rich
resource of spice, tea and other exotic trade goods-and a country
which would add another eastern jewel to the imperial crown-had, of
course, not escaped Britain's notice. Predictably, the indigenous
population, particularly in the form of the rulers of the kingdom
of Kandy, took issue with the prospect of British rule and opposed
British Army regular troops, supported by the natives of the
Honourable East India Company's army, with force. This book
recounts a very little reported campaign to subjugate the
Kandyians. It was a savagely a war fought over difficult terrain
and one which did not decide who would rule Ceylon. This book will
fascinate those interested in the history of warfare during the
Napoleonic period and the story of the campaign is supported in
this special Leonaur edition by an historical overview of the
period to provide a first hand account context and understanding of
the wider conflict.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
Title: Narrative of the operations of a detachment in an expedition
to Candy, in the island of Ceylon, in ... 1804, etc.Publisher:
British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is
the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the
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in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers,
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back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied
collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view
of the world. Topics include health, education, economics,
agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and
industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below
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British Library Johnston, Arthur; 1810. viii. 138 p.; 8 .
981.c.16.(1.)
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The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
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edition identification: ++++Southern Illinois University Law
LibraryCTRG98-B1488Includes indexes.London: Effingham Wilson:
Stevens & Sons, 1908. lxxx, 612 p.: forms; 25 cm
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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