!['The History of Persia, from the most early period to the present time: containing an account of the religion, government, usages and character of the inhabitants of that kingdom. By Colonel Sir John Malcolm, KCB, KLS Late minister plenipotentiary to the court of Persia from the supreme government of India. In two volumes.' [‎60] (85/786)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023553883.0x000001/X 699 vol. 2_0085.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'The History of Persia, from the most early period to the present time: containing an account of the religion, government, usages and character of the inhabitants of that kingdom. By Colonel Sir John Malcolm, KCB, KLS Late minister plenipotentiary to the court of Persia from the supreme government of India. In two volumes.' [‎60] (85/786)")
'The History of Persia, from the most early period to the present time: containing an account of the religion, government, usages and character of the inhabitants of that kingdom. By Colonel Sir John Malcolm, KCB, KLS Late minister plenipotentiary to the court of Persia from the supreme government of India. In two volumes.' [60] (85/786)
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60
THE HISTORY OF PERSIA.
chap . xvii. and had sent a general, named AbdAM*, at the head of a large
force, with orders, either to conclude peace, or to continue the
mdir hastens war, as circumstances should render it expedient. Nddir hastened
menia"and' to occupy Armenia and Georgia, which were the principal of the
tr... disputed provinces. He threw a bridge over the rapid Araxes; and
a. h. 1147. at once i nvesle( j the cities of Teflis, Gunjah, and Eriv^n, in the
hope that the danger with which they were threatened, would lead
the Turkish general to hazard an action. Nor was he deceived.
AbdAM, encouraged by his superior numbers, left the entrench
ments f with which he had covered his army, and attacked the
a. d. 173^ Persians on the plains of Bdgh&vund, near Erivdn. The Persian
a. h.1148.
Harangues his leader, when he saw him advancing, addressed his troops in the
most animated language. " Their enemies/'' he said, " outnum-
" bered them eight to one J; but that was only an incitement to
" glorious exertion. He had dreamt on the past night," he told
them, " that a furious animal had rushed into his tent, which, after
" a long struggle, he had slain||. "With such an omen/ , he exclaimed,
44 success is certain to those who fight under the protection of
" his great arm, who raiseth the weak to glory, and casteth down
" the proudest oppressors." If his troops were encouraged by this
# Hanvvay styles this officer AbduM Kouprouli, Pacha of Cairo. — H an way.
Vol. II. page 336.
t He had fortified a camp near the city of Kars (the Charsa of Ptolemy,) which is
at present subject to Turkey, and has a population of about thirty thousand souls.—
K innier's Memoir of Persia, page 323.
% Meerza Mehdy gives an exaggerated account of the number of the Turks. They
had, he asserts, sixty thousand cavalry and fifty thousand infantry.
11 Meerza Mehdy's History. Sir William Jones's Works, Vol. V. page 216.
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The History of Persia, from the most early period to the present time: containing an account of the religion, government, usages and character of the inhabitants of that kingdom. By Colonel Sir John Malcolm, KCB, KLS Late minister plenipotentiary to the court of Persia from the supreme government of India. In two volumes.
The book, in two volumes, is written by John Malcolm and contains illustrations.
Publication Details: London : printed for John Murray, Albemarle Street, and Longman and Co., Paternoster-Row, by James Moyes, Greville Street, MDCCCXV [1815]
Ownership: With stamps of the East India Company Library and India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Library.
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There is a table of contents at the beginning (v-vii) and an index at the end of the volume (639-715).
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Pagination: vii, [1], 715, [1] p., [11] leaves of plates.
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- 'The History of Persia, from the most early period to the present time: containing an account of the religion, government, usages and character of the inhabitants of that kingdom. By Colonel Sir John Malcolm, KCB, KLS Late minister plenipotentiary to the court of Persia from the supreme government of India. In two volumes.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:vii-v, 1:44, 44a:44d, 45:114, 114a:114d, 115:160, 160a:160d, 161:262, 262a:262d, 263:314, 314a:314d, 315:522, 522a:522h, 523:524, 524a:524h, 525:596, 596a:596d, 597:602, 602a:602d, 603:716, viii-r:ix-v, back-i
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- Malcolm, Sir John
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