Diary of a journey to Afghanistan during the campaign of 1878-79.
Author: William Simpson
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ISBN: OCLC:822959339
Category: Afghan Wars
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Diary of a journey to Afghanistan during the campaign of 1878-79.William Simpson s Afghanistan
This edition of the diary benefits from an extensive introduction and appendices.
Author: Peter Harrington
Publisher: Helion & Company Limited
ISBN: 1909982806
Category: History
Page: 248
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'Left London, on a journey with Kabool as my objective via Brindisi and Bombay'. With these words written on Tuesday October 15, 1878, the Scottish artist William Simpson (1823-1899), commenced a daily journal which he later entitled Diary of a Journey to Afghanistan during the Campaign of 1878-79. Simpson was no stranger to the life of a 'special' having previously covered military campaigns in Abyssinia, France, and California on behalf of his employer, the Illustrated London News. Earlier, his efforts in the Crimean War had already established his reputation for accuracy and an eye for detail. As an 'embedded' artist with the Peshawar Valley Field Force, Simpson recorded the events leading up to the signing of the Treaty of Gandamak in May 1879 which brought the first phase of the Second Afghan War to a close. During his six months in Afghanistan, he sent back numerous sketches, drawings and watercolors accompanied by detailed captions to his newspaper in London. This period could be described as a 'phony war' as the British waited for the various tribal leaders to come into camp in Jalalabad and swear their allegiance to the British Government. The inactivity of the army with only the occasional punitive expedition to alleviate the boredom allowed Simpson to pursue his antiquarian interests by exploring caves and excavating several ancient Buddhist burial monuments known as stupas. In addition to the finely detailed and exquisite pictures, Simpson's diary contains accounts of his studies of these ancient sites as well as commentaries on the people and places he observed. Upon his return to England, he collected all his original sketches, drawings and watercolors sent to 'News and mounted them in two large albums, one dealing with the war, the people and the country, the other containing all his archaeological pictures. The diary paints a rare picture of the life of a 19th century 'special' artist in a war zone and the mechanics and editorial decisions that went into the pictorial coverage of a colonial war. It also offers a unique insight into early colonial archaeology undertaken by Simpson and a number of British officers while on campaign continuing the tradition of oriental scholarship among army officials. While much of this revolved around 'treasure hunting' Simpson went beyond this to understand the Buddhist culture that created the many monuments surrounding the Jalalabad Valley. This edition of the diary benefits from an extensive introduction and appendices.Kipling and Afghanistan
Peter Harrington was preparing a study of William Simpson, ... of Simpson in Australia, who possessed Simpson's diary of the Second Afghan War.
Author: Neil K. Moran
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786422821
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 243
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"Kipling became the voice of the eastern British Empire, and his writing covered Central Asia. Kipling drew inspiration from working with far-flung correspondents at the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, Pakistan. One of his chief correspondents was DHistory of Buddhism in Afghanistan
convent of an old king , there is a milk tooth of ' Sakya Bodhisattva ' . It is about an
inch in length . ... It may be identified with the stupa that presently stands near the
Philakhana at Dauranta , noticed by William Simpson . 2 The antiquities and ...
Author: Chandrika Singh Upasak
Publisher:
ISBN: UCAL:B3877061
Category: Buddhism
Page: 264
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A Systematic Work On The History Of Buddhism In Afghanistan Which Was A Very Influential Region In Central Asia With Close Socio-Cultural Interaction With Ancient Tibet-Based On The Author`S Explorations In The Field. 12 Chapters-Bibliography, Index. 47 Illustration Including A Map.History of Central Asia The 4 volume set
William Simpson's Afghanistan: Travels of a Special Artist and Antiquarian During the Second Afghan War, 1878–1879 (Solihull: Helion, 2016).
Author: Christoph Baumer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781838608682
Category: History
Page: 1568
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This set includes all four volumes of the critically acclaimed History of Central Asia series. The epic plains and arid deserts of Central Asia have witnessed some of the greatest migrations, as well as many of the most transformative developments, in the history of civilization. Christoph Baumer's ambitious four-volume treatment of the region charts the 3000-year drama of Scythians and Sarmatians; Soviets and transcontinental Silk Roads; trade routes and the transmission of ideas across the steppes; and the breathless and brutal conquests of Alexander the Great and Chinghiz Khan. Masterfully interweaving the stories of individuals and peoples, the author's engaging prose is richly augmented throughout by colour photographs taken on his own travels. This set includes The Age of the Steppe Warriors (Volume 1), The Age of the Silk Roads (Volume 2), The Age of Islam and the Mongols (Volume 3) and The Age of Decline and Revival (Volume 4)The Illustrated naval and military magazine
BY WILLIAM SIMPSON . manner . HE Afghan Frontier Commission will not tenant
Lumsden , accompanied him . Dr. Bellew , who is a commence its actual work till
it meets well - known writer and authority on everything connected the Russian ...
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ISBN: CORNELL:31924015269024
Category: Military art and science
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Portraits of Remembrance
Heidi A. Cook is a PhD candidate in the history of art and architecture at the ... 1700–1914; William Simpson's Afghanistan: Travels of a Special Artist and ...
Author: Margaret Hutchison
Publisher: War, Memory, and Culture
ISBN: 9780817320508
Category: Art
Page: 352
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Interdisciplinary collection of essays on fine art painting as it relates to the First World War and commemoration of the conflict Although photography and moving pictures achieved ubiquity during the First World War as technological means of recording history, the far more traditional medium of painting played a vital role in the visual culture of combatant nations. The public's appetite for the kind of up-close frontline action that snapshots and film footage could not yet provide resulted in a robust market for drawn or painted battle scenes. Painting also figured significantly in the formation of collective war memory after the armistice. Paintings became sites of memory in two ways: first, many governments and communities invested in freestanding panoramas or cycloramas that depicted the war or featured murals as components of even larger commemorative projects, and second, certain paintings, whether created by official artists or simply by those moved to do so, emerged over time as visual touchstones in the public's understanding of the war. Portraits of Remembrance: Painting, Memory, and the First World War examines the relationship between war painting and collective memory in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, and the United States. The paintings discussed vary tremendously, ranging from public murals and panoramas to works on a far more intimate scale, including modernist masterpieces and crowd-pleasing expressions of sentimentality or spiritualism. Contributors raise a host of topics in connection with the volume's overarching focus on memory, including national identity, constructions of gender, historical accuracy, issues of aesthetic taste, and connections between painting and literature, as well as other cultural forms.Global Dawn
... AM 59 ( April 1887 ) , 477 ; William Simpson , “ With the Afghan Boundary ... “ Some Recent Books of Travel , ” AM 42 ( November 1878 ) , 584 . 42. S.
Author: Frank A Ninkovich
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674035046
Category: History
Page: 428
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Why did the United States become a global power? Frank Ninkovich shows that a cultural predisposition for thinking in global terms blossomed in the late nineteenth century, making possible the rise to world power as American liberals of the time took a wide-ranging interest in the world. Of little practical significance during a period when isolationism reigned supreme in U.S. foreign policy, this rich body of thought would become the cultural foundation of twentieth-century American internationalism.America s Heroes Medal of Honor Recipients from the Civil War to Afghanistan
... Theodore Titus, Calvin P., 331-333 Simpson, William H. Spurrier, Iunior I., 320-322 Stanton, Edwin M. Custer, Thomas W., 63 -64 Truman, Harry S. Brown, ...
Author: Jim Willbanks
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 9781598843941
Category: History
Page: 534
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This book features the stories of 200 heroic individuals awarded the Medal of Honor for their distinguished military service while fighting for their country, from the Civil War to the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. • Provides 200 biographical essays of Medal of Honor recipients and 10 sidebars with additional information about the Medal of Honor and its recipients • Contains contributions from more than 50 distinguished scholars and historians • Includes a complete alphabetical listing of individuals who have received the nation's highest military award for valor • An extensive bibliography provides additional resources • Topic finders make it easy to identify entries from a particular war, home state, or branch of serviceJournal of the Society of Arts
A layer of two or three feet thick must be allowed to dry and consolidate before
another is placed on it , because the weight ... To this may be added the practice
of other See paper on “ Experiences on the Afghan Frontier , " by William
Simpson ...
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ISBN: PRNC:32101076203700
Category: Art
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Diary of a Journey to Abyssinia 1868
... WILLIAM SIMPSON A few years later he was back in Afghanistan , this time ... ( “ Notes , " 241 ) According to George Eyre - Todd , who edited Simpson's ...
Author: William Simpson
Publisher: Tsehai Publishers
ISBN: 097231721X
Category: Abyssinian Expedition
Page: 196
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The Expedition to Magdala of 1867-1868 was a memorable event in British Military history of warfare in general, and in the history of Ethiopia. Meticulously planned and executed, the campaign was a triumph for its commander, Sir Robert Napier. It was notable for the use of Elephants imported from India, the building of a port railway and the use of breech-loading rifles, the first time they employed in War.Painting in the Punjab Plains
Ranjeet Singh ' s Court - miniature painted by Imam Buksh Lahori . Reproduced
in the book of ... Ranjeet Singh ' s reign . Portrait of Afghan noble painted at the
Sikh Court in the early 19th century . ... William Simpson , 1859 . Title page of the
...
Author: Musarrat Hasan
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015068830333
Category: Painting, British
Page: 268
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The Illustrated London News
a THE AFGHAN BOUNDARY COMMISSION . r.carly parallel with the new
Russian road and half - con EN ROUTE TO ... which is a Mr. William simpson ,
our Special Artist , arrived two months the l'embroke Castle , the vessel which
conveyed ...
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ISBN: CHI:44574574
Category: London (England)
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Hart s Annual Army List Militia List and Imperial Yeomanry List
2 William Simpson , 6 Nov . ... Served in the Soudan carnpain in 1885 ( Medal
with Clasp , and Khedive ' s Star ) . i2 Major Donald served in the Afghan war in
1878 - 79 in the Transport Department ( Medal ) . an war in 1879 - 80 , and was ...
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ISBN: UOM:39015035100604
Category: Civil service
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For the Sake of Present and Future Generations
... in Honour of Roger S. Clark Suzannah Linton, Gerry Simpson, William A. Schabas. Afghan citizen in a 'black jail' in a third country, a large number of ...
Author: Suzannah Linton
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004270725
Category: Law
Page: 704
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This Festschrift, edited by Professors Suzannah Linton, Gerry Simpson and William Schabas, brings together forty-one distinguished experts to honour Professor Roger Stenson Clark’s remarkable contribution to International Law.Simpson s World
With characteristic wit and inexhaustible curiosity, and an uncanny knack for being in the right place at the right time, this collection of episodes from his remarkable life offers a ringside seat at every major event in recent global ...
Author: John Simpson
Publisher: Miramax
ISBN: UVA:X004701812
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 423
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The veteran BBC journalist recalls his adventures around the world, detailing his visits to more than one hundred countries, interviews with 120 world leaders, and experiences on the frontlines of twenty-nine wars and uprisings, covering everything from the massacre at Tiananmen Square to dodging guerrillas in Colombia. 25,000 first printing.The Wall Street Journal
... Mideast Militants Gain Footholds ; Lebanon Standoff Shows Spread of al
Qaeda - Style Extremism ; by Bill Spindle , Cam Simpson , The ... Vreeland ,
Diana ( 1903-89 ) ; Fashion ; Nonfiction ; S 15 - W.10 MILBRANDT , CELITE
Going Wireless : Internet Radio Races To Break ... In American Command Post ,
A Sergeant Awaits Report : Did His Jets Miss Mark ?; by Michael M Phillips ; [
News ] Afghanistan ...
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ISBN: CORNELL:31924108429279
Category: Barron's national business and financial weekly
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The History of British Art
Through such artists as William Simpson ( 1823-99 ) , who was commissioned in
1854 by the London firm of Paul and ... So popular were Simpson's images that
he was widely known as ' Crimean Simpson ' , a sobriquet that adhered long after
he ... to Ethiopia in 1868 with Robert Napier and another to Afghanistan in 1878.
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ISBN: MINN:31951D028156674
Category: Art
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The British Raj Keywords
The stages in the production were depicted in a set of eight visuals in The Graphic (1887) and in visuals printed in the works like William Simpson«s India: ...
Author: Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781351972413
Category: History
Page: 172
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For two hundred years India was the jewel in the British imperial crown. During the course of governing India – the Raj – a number of words came to have particular meanings in the imperial lexicon. This book documents the words and terms that the British used to describe, define, understand and judge the subcontinent. It offers insight into the cultures of the Raj through a sampling of its various terms, concepts and nomenclature, and utilizes critical commentaries on specific domains to illuminate not only the linguistic meaning of a word but its cultural and political nuances. This fascinating book also provides literary and cultural texts from the colonial canon where these Anglo-Indian colloquialisms, terms and official jargon occurred. It enables us to glean a sense of the Empire’s linguistic and cultural tensions, negotiations and adaptations. The work will interest students and researchers of history, language and literature, colonialism, cultural studies, imperialism and the British Raj, and South Asian studies.Sotheran s Price Current of Literature
1241 KAYE ( Sir John W . ) HISTORY of the War in AFGHANISTAN , new Edition (
with Ap . pendixes and Notes ] , 3 vols ... Letters written in 1854 - 6 , by S . K .
STOTHERT , Chaplain , with Preface , with illustrations by William Simpson , R . I
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Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
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ISBN: UOM:39015076097412
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