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Francis Younghusband and the Great Game

Anthony Verrier

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Description:Sir Francis Younghusband was a recluse from society, born in 1863, and trained to play the Great Game - the war of wits waged between British and Russian agents for mastery of the territories north of British India. Under the flag of the empire, Younghusband was given the opportunity to follow his expansionist ambitions and spiritual yearnings into the most desolate and mountainous regions of Central Asia. His adventures in China, the Pamirs and Tibet were extraordinary. Defying orders from both the British and Indian governments, he insisted that wherever he went, British power should follow. He was determined to force Tibet to show allegiance to the King-Emperor and fought his way through to Lhasa in 1904 using the deadly Maxim machine gun against peasants who were, for all intents and purposes, unarmed. The slaughter was unjustified, but Younghusband merely declared "they will not understand our power."Younghusband's contemporaries found him unfathomable, historians, an enigma but, working from his letters and diaries, Anthony Verrier reveals for the first time the motives which lay behind Younghusband's foolhardy explorations and rash intelligence operations. In combination, these affairs led to Younghusband's fall from grace.The result is an important contribution to our knowledge of nineteenth- and twentieth-century imperialism, as well as a fascinating portrait of one of its most controversial servants.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Francis Younghusband and the Great Game. To get started finding Francis Younghusband and the Great Game, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London

Release: 1991

ISBN: 0224025058

Description: Sir Francis Younghusband was a recluse from society, born in 1863, and trained to play the Great Game - the war of wits waged between British and Russian agents for mastery of the territories north of British India. Under the flag of the empire, Younghusband was given the opportunity to follow his expansionist ambitions and spiritual yearnings into the most desolate and mountainous regions of Central Asia. His adventures in China, the Pamirs and Tibet were extraordinary. Defying orders from both the British and Indian governments, he insisted that wherever he went, British power should follow. He was determined to force Tibet to show allegiance to the King-Emperor and fought his way through to Lhasa in 1904 using the deadly Maxim machine gun against peasants who were, for all intents and purposes, unarmed. The slaughter was unjustified, but Younghusband merely declared "they will not understand our power."Younghusband's contemporaries found him unfathomable, historians, an enigma but, working from his letters and diaries, Anthony Verrier reveals for the first time the motives which lay behind Younghusband's foolhardy explorations and rash intelligence operations. In combination, these affairs led to Younghusband's fall from grace.The result is an important contribution to our knowledge of nineteenth- and twentieth-century imperialism, as well as a fascinating portrait of one of its most controversial servants.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Francis Younghusband and the Great Game. To get started finding Francis Younghusband and the Great Game, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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