 | sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson (1st bart.) - 1875 - 524 pages
...cities to the north, which would furnish the Russian supports, meet in this favoured spot. In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that if Russia were once...strength at Herat, and her communications were secured in one direction with Asterabad through Meshed, in another with Khiva through Merv, and in a third... | |
 | Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson - 1875 - 442 pages
...cities to the north, which would furnish the Russian supports, meet in this favoured spot. In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that if Russia were once...strength at Herat, and her communications were secured in one direction with Asterabad through Meshed, in another with Khiva through Merv, and in a third... | |
 | Mikhail Afrikanovich Terentʹev - 1876 - 324 pages
...cities to the north, which would furnish the Russian supports, meet in this favoured spot. In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that if Russia were once...strength at Herat, and her communications were secured in one direction with Asterabad through Meshed, in another with Khiva through Merv, and in a third... | |
 | 1879 - 794 pages
...cities of the north, which would furnish the Russian supports, meet in this favoured spot. In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that, if Russia were...strength at Herat, and her communications were secured in one direction with Astrabad through Meshed, in another with Khiva through Merv, and in a third with... | |
 | 1878 - 802 pages
...cities to the north, which would furnish the Russian supports, meet in this favoured spot. In fact, it is no exaggeration to say, that, if Russia were...strength at Herat, and her communications were secured in one direction with Asterabad through Meshed, in another with Khiva through Merv, and in a third... | |
 | Brian W. Blouet - 2005 - 200 pages
...graphic picture whereby Russia could easily take control of Britain's Indian Empire noting that: 93 ... if Russia were once established in full strength at Herat, and her communications were secured in one direction with Asterabad, through Meshed, in another with Khiva, through Merv and a third with... | |
 | Jimmie E. Cain, Jr. - 2006 - 216 pages
...cities to the north, which would furnish the Russian supports, meet in this favoured spot. In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that if Russia were once...strength at Herat, and her communications were secured in one direction with Asterabad through Meshed, in another with Khiva and Mymeneh and the passage of... | |
 | 1887 - 850 pages
...can be quoted than Sir Henry Rawlinson. the geographer and general, who wrote, fifteen years ago : " It is no exaggeration to say that if Russia were once established in full force at Herat, and her communications were secured in one direction with Askhabad thorough Meshed... | |
 | 1887 - 888 pages
...can be quoted than Sir He%ry Rawlinson, the geographer and general, who wrote, fifteen years ago : " It is no exaggeration to say that if Russia were once established in full force at Herat, and her communications were secured in one direction with Askhabad thorough Meshed.... | |
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Water and supplies abound, and routes from all the great cities to the north, which would furnish the Russian supports, meet in this favoured spot. In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that if Russia were once established in full strength at Herat, and... 