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Mss Eur F213/24, p60
- Record Id:
- 041-002301839
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002301764
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001953.0x0002f6
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur F213/24, p60
- Title:
- Letter from Dalhousie to Hobhouse
- Scope & Content:
- Gough's complete victory over Sikhs and Afghans at battle of Gujrat on 21 February; briefly describes battle (full details in despatches going by same mail); believes victory will impress on Native powers a conviction of the great superiority in military resources and science of British Army apart from its natural courage and spirit; effects of the victory, pursuit of Sikh army by Gilbert's force, and events elsewhere; indispensability of repelling 'Mahometan invasion' if possible during present season; has repeatedly impressed this point on Gough who has now acted on it though 'more expedition might have been used'; peace overtures from Sher Singh and Dalhousie's dilemma whether to recede slightly from his insistence hitherto on 'unconditional surrender' – on one hand he wished to avoid any appearance of weakness, on the other he was anxious to recover British prisoners especially ladies and children; his decision to assure Sher Singh and Sirdars that they would not be imprisoned, transported, nor – if point is pressed – banished from Punjab; acknowledges Hobhouse's letter of 24 January; slowness of sending up Bombay troops; General Whish; Maj Edwardes; problem of replacing Gough; Satara; hopes to get on well with Henry Lawrence, but latter is biased in favour of past policy in Punjab and in favour of Sikhs; Dalhousie has told him that if annexation is policy ultimately decided on, he must either carry it cordially or tell Dalhousie he could not, to which he assented; Lawrence's wish to issue proclamation in his own name offering more lenient terms than hitherto – Dalhousie told him he had come to frontier expressly to direct Government's policy himself; Lawrence suggested restoration of Maharani to Punjab; Dalhousie mentions such matters only to show that Lawrence's return is not a panacea for all ills – 'we shall get on very well … now that he has learnt that that he must be content to be a Resident or Commissioner , not a Potentate'; explains limits of his correspondence with Wellington; Gough's censure of cavalry regiments involved in flight at Chilianwala unjustly includes wings which were elsewhere; asks that following letter and related correspondence be shown Chairman of Company and Wellington if Gough resigns; PS (7 March): Sikhs still retiring and unlikely to fight again; encloses copy of his letter to Queen.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002301764
036-002301791
040-002301832
041-002301839 - Is part of:
- Mss Eur F213 : Papers of John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton, as President of the Board of Control 1835-41 and 1846-52
Mss Eur F213/21-28 : John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton, President of the Board of Control 1846-52: correspondence with persons in India and…
Mss Eur F213/24 : Letters from persons in India and elsewhere. Principal correspondents: Lord Dalhousie; Lord Falkland, Sir Henry Pottinger.…
Mss Eur F213/24, p60 : Letter from Dalhousie to Hobhouse - Hierarchy:
- 032-002301764[0008]/036-002301791[0004]/040-002301832[0007]/041-002301839
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur F213
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1849
- End Date:
- 1849
- Date Range:
- 6 Mar 1849
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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