 ... the body of a murdered Persian should be found. From sun-rise to mid-day, the sabre raged ; and by that time, not fewer than 8000 Hindoos, Moguls, or Afghauns were numbered with the dead. During the massacre and pillage, the city was set on fire in...  The History of British India - Page 450by James Mill - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Josiah Conder - Africa - 1828 - 374 pages
...by that time, not fewer than 8000 Hindoos, Moguls, or Afghauns were numbered with the dead. During the massacre and pillage, the city was set, on fire...the two crores of rupees promised by its governor, Saadut Khan ; who, in the short interval, had died of a cancer in his back. On the same day, he commenced... | |
 | James William Massie - India - 1840 - 512 pages
...raged, and thousands of Moguls, Hindoos, or Afghauns, were numbered with the dead. In the midst of massacre and pillage, the city was set on fire in several places. Saadut Khan, the origin of this deadly destruction, was now required to pay the two millions for his... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - Great Britain - 1881 - 160 pages
...to midday the sabre raged ; and by that time not less than 8000 were numbered with the dead. During the massacre and pillage the city was set on fire in several places.' At the end of a fifty-eight days' sack, the plunderers went off with their booty, leaving the capital... | |
 | John Fletcher Hurst - India - 1891 - 846 pages
...the sabre raged; and by that time not less than eight thousand were numbered with the dead. During the massacre and pillage the city was set on fire in several places." The history of the great Mogul empire is one uninterrupted chapter of bloodshed. At the death of the Emperor... | |
 | John Fletcher Hurst - India - 1891 - 844 pages
...the sabre raged ; and by that time not less than eight thousand were numbered with the dead. During the massacre and pillage the city was set on fire in several places." The history of the great Mogul empire is one uninterrupted chapter of bloodshed. At the death of the Emperor... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - Great Britain - 1908 - 310 pages
...to midday the sabre raged ; and by that time not less than 8,000 were numbered with the dead. During the massacre and pillage the city was set on fire in several places.' At the end of a fifty-eight days' sack, the plunderers went off with their booty, leaving the capital... | |
 | Edward Gilliat - India - 1919 - 410 pages
...midday the sabre raged ; and by that time not less than 8,000 were numbered with the 9 dead. During the massacre and pillage the city was set on fire in several places. The Afghan invasions were even more brutal ; one gang of 25,000 Afghan horsemen swooped down upon the sacred... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1880 - 800 pages
...to midday the sabre raged ; and by that time not less than 8,000 were numbered with the dead. During the massacre and pillage the city was set on fire in several places." At the end of a fifty-eight days' sack, the plunderers went off with a booty valued at nine millions... | |
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