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I suppose he is afraid of being thought rash; but his advice is, that the Government should re-establish the independence of the Punjab, recall the Ameers of
Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 John Bright 1850
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The Ameers now took the field with a force estimated at 22,000 men; but were attacked on the
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various
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Ameers; and the resident, Major Outram, after defending himself with only 100 men for four hours, forced his way through the host of his assailants, and reached Sir Charles Napier's camp.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various
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_Ameers_, or chiefs of the Belooch family of Talpoor, who, fixing their residences respectively at Hydrabad, Meerpoor, and Khyrpoor, defied all the efforts of the kings of Cabul to reduce them to submission, though they more than once averted an invasion by the promise of tribute.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various
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To this arrangement the Ameers, from the first, submitted with a bad grace, which it was easy to foresee would lead, according to established rule in such cases in India, to the forfeiture of their dominions.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various
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The Ameers (to borrow a phrase of Napoleon's germane to the matter) "have ceased to reign," and their territory has formally, as it already was virtually, incorporated with the Anglo-Indian empire.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various
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Shortly afterwards, war broke out with the Ameers of Scinde, a large province occupying the basin of the lower Indus.
Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901 Anonymous
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The proximate cause of the rupture was the refusal of the Ameers to permit the clearing away of their _shikargahs_, or hunting-grounds, which were guarded with a rigid jealousy, paralleled only by the forest laws of William the Conqueror, and extended for many miles along the banks of the Indus, in a broad belt of impenetrable jungle, at once impeding the navigation by preventing the tracking of boats, and presenting dangerous facilities for ambush.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various
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They exist on both sides of the principal mouths of the Indus, in the Gorabaree and Shahbunder pergunnas, which part of the province is called by the natives "Kukralla," and was in olden days, before the era of Goolam Shah Kalora, a small state almost independent of the Ameers of Sind.
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The effect of the victory was decisive: the Ameers surrendered themselves prisoners of war, and were shortly afterwards sent to Bombay; the British flag was hoisted at Hydrabad; and a proclamation of the Governor-general was published at Agra, March 5, declaring the annexation to our empire of "the country on both sides of the Indus from Sukkur to the sea."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various
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