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Description:Alexander Haughton Campbell Gardner (Gordana Khan) (1785–1877) was a traveller, soldier and mercenary. He travelled to Afghanistan and Punjab and served in various military positions in the region. " Alexander Gardner was born in 1785 in North America, on the shore of Lake Superior, and died at Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir, in 1877. His father was a Scottish emigrant to the then British colonies of North America, who took part in the War of Independence. His mother was an Englishwoman resident in South America, and had an admixture of Spanish blood. Her distinguished son wrote of her in terms of the highest admiration. He inherited an adventurous disposition from both sides, paternal and maternal. He sought first for a position in the Russian service, but accidentally lost it on the eve of attainment. Then he crossed the Caspian Sea, and entered on a career of adventure in Central Asia, from Kokan across the Hindu Caucasus to Herat, amidst ambuscades, fierce reprisals, hairbreadth escapes, alternations between brief plenty and long fasting— amidst episodes sometimes of brutality and cruelty well-nigh inconceivable, at other times of hearty charity and fidelity unto death. For some time he was prominent in the service of Habib-Ullah Khan, the first Afghan opponent of the great Dost Muhammad Khan. During two years he actually enjoyed a term of domestic happiness, when he was peaceful indoors though generally at war out-of-doors. This was the one oasis in the wild desert of his whole life. To the last he could never refer to it without tears, case-hardened as he was, with his memory seared by many horrors, and his vision hardened by looking at terrors in the face. It met with a bloody and piteous termination; and then for some time he had to get through an existence fraught with extremity of hardship and of crisis, during which he was preserved by his own intrepidity and penetration. At length he succeeded in entering the Panjab, being engaged in the service of Afghan chiefs who held Peshawar, and who were subdued by Maharaja Ranjit Singh. While there he received a command to enter Ranjit Singh's service and proceeded to Lahore. He was employed in the Maharaja's service as Commandant of Artillery for several years. Then he was transferred to the service of Dhyan Singh, the Prime Minister, a Rajput of the Lower Himalayas, who with his brother, the famous Gulab Singh, became the chief feudatories of the Sikh sovereignty. He made the acquaintance of Henry Lawrence, then a rising political officer at Peshawar, at the time of the British disasters at Kabul in 1841. After Dhyan Singh's death he served Gulab Singh alone. He witnessed, or was in close contact with, the sanguinary revolutions that followed one after another upon the death of • Ranjit He was at Lahore during the first Panjab war in 1845-46. He then returned to the territories of Gulab Singh, who became sovereign of Jammu and Kashmir. He died a pensioner under Gulab Singh's successor in Kashmir at the advanced age of about ninety years. His constitution, originally magnificent, must have becotue somewhat worn out by the severe vicissitudes of a long career, and he dreamed the evening of his life away." CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE MAN AND HIS WRITINGS. CHAPTER II. EARLY LIFE AND TRAVELS, 1786-1819. CHAPTER III. ADVENTURES AMONG THE HAZARAS, 1819. CHAPTER IV. WANDERER AND FREEBOOTER IN CENTRAL ASIA. CHAPTER V. A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE AMONG THE AFGHANS. CHAPTER VI. A FUGITIVE. CHAPTER VII. THROUGH BADAKSHAN. CHAPTER VIII. AMONG THE KIRGHIZ. CHAPTER IX. A REMARKABLE JOURNEY. CHAPTER X. ADVENTURES IN THE PANJAB. CHAPTER XI. THE LION OF THE PANJAB." CHAPTER XII.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 Soldier and Traveller: Memoirs of Alexander Gardner, Colonel of Artillery in the Service of of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. To get started finding Soldier and Traveller: Memoirs of Alexander Gardner, Colonel of Artillery in the Service of of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Alexander Haughton Campbell Gardner (Gordana Khan) (1785–1877) was a traveller, soldier and mercenary. He travelled to Afghanistan and Punjab and served in various military positions in the region. " Alexander Gardner was born in 1785 in North America, on the shore of Lake Superior, and died at Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir, in 1877. His father was a Scottish emigrant to the then British colonies of North America, who took part in the War of Independence. His mother was an Englishwoman resident in South America, and had an admixture of Spanish blood. Her distinguished son wrote of her in terms of the highest admiration. He inherited an adventurous disposition from both sides, paternal and maternal. He sought first for a position in the Russian service, but accidentally lost it on the eve of attainment. Then he crossed the Caspian Sea, and entered on a career of adventure in Central Asia, from Kokan across the Hindu Caucasus to Herat, amidst ambuscades, fierce reprisals, hairbreadth escapes, alternations between brief plenty and long fasting— amidst episodes sometimes of brutality and cruelty well-nigh inconceivable, at other times of hearty charity and fidelity unto death. For some time he was prominent in the service of Habib-Ullah Khan, the first Afghan opponent of the great Dost Muhammad Khan. During two years he actually enjoyed a term of domestic happiness, when he was peaceful indoors though generally at war out-of-doors. This was the one oasis in the wild desert of his whole life. To the last he could never refer to it without tears, case-hardened as he was, with his memory seared by many horrors, and his vision hardened by looking at terrors in the face. It met with a bloody and piteous termination; and then for some time he had to get through an existence fraught with extremity of hardship and of crisis, during which he was preserved by his own intrepidity and penetration. At length he succeeded in entering the Panjab, being engaged in the service of Afghan chiefs who held Peshawar, and who were subdued by Maharaja Ranjit Singh. While there he received a command to enter Ranjit Singh's service and proceeded to Lahore. He was employed in the Maharaja's service as Commandant of Artillery for several years. Then he was transferred to the service of Dhyan Singh, the Prime Minister, a Rajput of the Lower Himalayas, who with his brother, the famous Gulab Singh, became the chief feudatories of the Sikh sovereignty. He made the acquaintance of Henry Lawrence, then a rising political officer at Peshawar, at the time of the British disasters at Kabul in 1841. After Dhyan Singh's death he served Gulab Singh alone. He witnessed, or was in close contact with, the sanguinary revolutions that followed one after another upon the death of • Ranjit He was at Lahore during the first Panjab war in 1845-46. He then returned to the territories of Gulab Singh, who became sovereign of Jammu and Kashmir. He died a pensioner under Gulab Singh's successor in Kashmir at the advanced age of about ninety years. His constitution, originally magnificent, must have becotue somewhat worn out by the severe vicissitudes of a long career, and he dreamed the evening of his life away." CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE MAN AND HIS WRITINGS. CHAPTER II. EARLY LIFE AND TRAVELS, 1786-1819. CHAPTER III. ADVENTURES AMONG THE HAZARAS, 1819. CHAPTER IV. WANDERER AND FREEBOOTER IN CENTRAL ASIA. CHAPTER V. A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE AMONG THE AFGHANS. CHAPTER VI. A FUGITIVE. CHAPTER VII. THROUGH BADAKSHAN. CHAPTER VIII. AMONG THE KIRGHIZ. CHAPTER IX. A REMARKABLE JOURNEY. CHAPTER X. ADVENTURES IN THE PANJAB. CHAPTER XI. THE LION OF THE PANJAB." CHAPTER XII.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 Soldier and Traveller: Memoirs of Alexander Gardner, Colonel of Artillery in the Service of of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. To get started finding Soldier and Traveller: Memoirs of Alexander Gardner, Colonel of Artillery in the Service of of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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