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"Ha, ha! young sahib meanee from top ob da ladder! Dat meanee he." "Exactly so," said Caspar; "you've guessed right, Ossy. I mean just that very thing." "Oh! then, indeed," said Karl, in a drawling tone, at the same time lapsing into a reflective silence. "Perhaps you are right, brother," he added, after a pause. "At all events, it will be easy to try.
He restored, to all appearance, British supremacy in the East. Sir C.J. Napier was in his sixty-second year when he conquered Sinde, winning the great Battles of Meanee and Doobah; and six years later he was sent out to India, as Commander-in-chief, at the suggestion of Wellington, who said, that, if Napier would not go, he should go himself.
The British commander, Sir Charles Napier, speedily proved to the enemy that the spirit of the British army had not failed since the days of Plassey. With a force of only 3000 men, he attacked and completely defeated two armies much superior in numbers . The result of these two victories Meanee and Dubba was the annexation of Scinde to the British dominions.
"Me bettee you hundled dollee you gottee um jack of hearts in you bootleg, so be!" "What!" cried Roche, as he looked down at his feet. "Do you mean that, you heathen?" "Me allee samee meanee," was the reply. "Me wantee givee you chancee to gittee square, so be." The villain had a hundred dollars out in a hurry. "There you are!" he exclaimed. "Cover that!"
We did not dally in those primitive smooth-bore days. Sir Charles Napier took the field against the Scinde Ameers on the 16th of February 1843. Next day he fought the battle of Meanee, entered Hyderabad on the 2Oth, and on the 24th of March won the decisive victory of Dubba which placed Scinde at his mercy, although not until June did the old "Lion of Meerpore" succumb to Jacob.
Besides the lives of myriads of British men, conquering on a hundred fields, from Plassey to Meanee, and bathing them cruore nostro: think of the women, and the tribute which they perforce must pay to those victorious achievements. Scarce a soldier goes to yonder shores but leaves a home and grief in it behind him.
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