The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... British . Warren Hastings , realising the danger of a combined attack from the Marathas and the French , determined to strike the first blow . He despatched a force under Colonel Leslie to march across India to the aid of a Pretender to ...
... British . Warren Hastings , realising the danger of a combined attack from the Marathas and the French , determined to strike the first blow . He despatched a force under Colonel Leslie to march across India to the aid of a Pretender to ...
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... British Army of 1775 was controlled.1 The country was vast in extent , thinly populated , cultivated only in patches , ill - supplied with roads and in large degree forest - clad . Far from being able to " live on the country " , the ...
... British Army of 1775 was controlled.1 The country was vast in extent , thinly populated , cultivated only in patches , ill - supplied with roads and in large degree forest - clad . Far from being able to " live on the country " , the ...
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... British . The cap- ture of one of these , Mahé , had contributed to embroil the British with Hyder Ali of Mysore , but in January 1781 though a French squadron made an ineffective appearance off the Carnatic , in the campaign in which ...
... British . The cap- ture of one of these , Mahé , had contributed to embroil the British with Hyder Ali of Mysore , but in January 1781 though a French squadron made an ineffective appearance off the Carnatic , in the campaign in which ...
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