Download or read book The Region of the Eternal Fire; an Account of a Journey to the Petroleum Region of the Caspian In 1883 ... written by Charles Thomas Marvin and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. 1.--Skobelefp's Project Fob Invading India. 2.--Skobbleff On The Russian Position In Central Asia 3.--The Russian Invasion Of India In 1877 And 1874. 4.--Russia's Power Of Seizing Herat. 5.--The Russian Annexation Of Mirv. 6.--What The Annexation Of Merv Means. 7.--Thi Caucasus Yiiw Of The Invasion Of India. SKOBELEFF'S PROJECT FOR INVADING INDIA. At various times small extracts have been given from the correspondence of the late General Skobeleff, containing his views of the practicability of a Russian invasion of India. The subjoined is the first complete document, however, that has yet been published on the subject. Its authenticity is beyond question. The italicised passages exist in the original: -- Letter from General Skobeleff to a near relative, on the invasion of India, recently found among the papers of the late Prince Tcherkassky. "I thank you heartily for your unchanging remembrance of me. I am thankful, but not surprised; it was by your co-operation that I began life in the military arena, and I am indebted to you for the first impressions of independent military service. To a certain degree I boldly express my conviction that you will henceforth take an interest in me, and assist me to continue to serve exclusively for war, which (after the success I have achieved it has now become manifest) is for me in life not a means but an end; and, moreover, the only one which causes me to value life. In this is really included the exclusiveness of my ambition, not always intelligible to everybody. You, who with discernment supported me more than twelve years ago, will probably now not refuse my petition, it being of a perfectly identical character; of course, conformably with fresh circumstances and position, as that with...