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  • Canning's sweeping condemnation, it should be considered that the object of the punishment was to produce a deterrent effect on those who were likely to follow the bad example that had been set them, and as the offence of the troopers had been public and ostentatious,

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

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