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Title: Story of one hundred years : A comprehensive review of the political and military events, the social, intellectual and material progress, and the general state of mankind in all lands. Embodying detailed and accurate accounts of all things of importance and interest, from 1801 to 1900, inclusive
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Shepp, Daniel B
Subjects: History, Modern
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Globe Bible publishing company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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und in Kurnaul, and treasure amounting to nearly^1,000,000. In the camp an immense quantity of jewels were captured,besides ^150,000 in specie. The Shah of Persia consented to acknowl-edge Shah Soojah as Ameer of Afghanistan ; but Dost Mahomed, thedeposed Prince, was still at large, and there was no doubt that a widelyramified conspiracy existed among the native chiefs to rise against theBritish on the first favorable opportunity. THE CHARTIST AGITATION. Great Britain was much disturbed during the years 1839-40 bylarge and tumultuous assemblages of the people, of a revolutionarycharacter, under the name of Chartists ; and many excesses were com-mitted by them in the large manufacturing towns of Manchester, Bolton,Birmingham, Stockport, etc., that required the strong arm of the law tocurb. This was alluded to in Her Majestys speech at the close of theSession of Parliament, as the first attempts at insubordination, whichhappily had been checked by the fearless administration of the law.
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