 Government are not prepared to comply with the request for a reinforcement of troops. All the information that has hitherto reached them with respect to the position of affairs in Zululand appears to them to justify a confident hope that by the exercise...  Annual Register - Page 9edited by - 1880Full view - About this book
 | James Young Gibson - 1911 - 380 pages
...information that had reached Her Majesty's Government appeared to them to justify the confident hopes that, by the exercise of prudence and by meeting the Zulus in a spirit of forbearance and compromise, it would be possible to avert war. In answer to this Sir Bartle Frere stated at length... | |
 | William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle - 1920 - 762 pages
...service ' officers asked for, but no more troops for the present. Beach, in writing to Frere, expressed ' a confident hope that by the exercise of prudence,...by meeting the Zulus in a spirit of forbearance and reasonable compromise, it will be possible to avert the very serious evil of a war with Cetywayo.'... | |
 | Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - 1926 - 766 pages
...the information which had been received with respect to the position of affairs in Zulu land appeared to them to justify a confident hope that, by the exercise...by meeting the Zulus in a spirit of forbearance and reasonable compromise, it would be possible to avert the very serious evil of a war with them. Sir... | |
 | Bruce Vandervort - 1998 - 298 pages
...1878, Sir Michael Hicks Beach, who had replaced Lord Carnarvon as colonial secretary, had advised Frere that "by the exercise of prudence, and by meeting the Zulus in a spirit of forebearance and reasonable compromise, it will be possible to avert the very serious evil of a war... | |
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