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Dalhousie

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Dal·hou·sie  (dl-hz, -hou-), Tenth Earl and First Marquis of
See James Andrew Brown Ramsay.
Dalhousie [dælˈhaʊzɪ]
n
1. (Biographies / Dalhousie, 9th Earl of (1770-1838) M, British, MILITARY: general, POLITICS: administrator) 9th Earl of, title of George Ramsay. 1770-1838, British general; governor of the British colonies in Canada (1819-28)
2. (Biographies / Dalhousie, 1st Marquis and 10th Earl of (1812-1860) M, British, POLITICS: statesman, POLITICS: administrator) his son, 1st Marquis and 10th Earl of, title of James Andrew Broun Ramsay. 1812-60, British statesman: governor general of India (1848- 56)


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Naini Tal had sent down her contingent with all speed; the lathering ponies of the Dalhousie Road staggered into Pathankot, taxed to the full stretch of their strength; while from cloudy Darjiling the Calcutta Mail whirled up the last straggler of the little army that was to fight a fight, in which was neither medal nor honour for the winning, against an enemy none other than "the sickness that destroyeth in the noonday.
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There was nothing in it of the child with whom I had journeyed to Dalhousie centuries since.
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