"Governor general" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Antwerp forts to advance towards Vilvorde and Louvain, a few miles from the capital. At the beginning of September, the sound of guns came so close that the people rejoiced openly, thinking that deliverance was at their gates. To sober their spirit—or to exasperate their patience?—the Governor General ordered that a few Belgian prisoners, some of them wounded, with their quickfiring gun drawn by a dog, should be marched through the crowded streets. The men were covered with dust, their heads wrapped in blood-stained bandages, and they kept ...
— Through the Iron Bars • Emile Cammaerts
... 570,000l.: that they had seven ships for China and the South Seas, whose cargoes amounted to 100,000l. That they had goods in India unsold, to the amount of 700,000l. About this period, Sir John Child, being what would now be called governor general of India, and his brother, Sir Jonah, leading member of the Court of Committees, the policy was introduced through their means, on which the sovereign power, as well as the immense empire of the East India Company was founded; this policy consisted of the enlargement ...
— Robert Kerr's General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 18 • William Stevenson
... Major Mathews seems to confirm the above statements. "His Lordship [Footnote: Lord Dorchester, Governor General of Canada, formerly Sir Guy Carlton.] wishes them (the Indians), to act as is best for their interest; he cannot begin a war with the Americans, because some of their people encroach and make depredations upon parts of the Indian country; but they must see it is his Lordship's ...
— An account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha - Red Jacket and his people, 1750-1830 • John Niles Hubbard
... danger, the colonies were not united then in any way, except under a Governor General sent out from England by the King. Washington had no authority over troops from any other colony, nor would officers commissioned by the King take orders from him. Naturally, all sorts of disputes arose and finally Washington decided to go to ...
— George Washington • Calista McCabe Courtenay
... ....ithout Bloodshed or...error of Authority Employ.only..cans of Conciliat...and Confiden. accomplished the...tire Subjection... a Lawless and Predatory Peop... ....taching them to...ish Government by a Conquest over....Minds The most perma...and rational Mode of Domini.. ...Governor General and Counc...engal have ordered thi.....erected ....arted this Life Aug. ...
— The Day's Work, Volume 1 • Rudyard Kipling
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