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Page 499
... Clive rallied them . On another occasion , the noise of a gun terrified the sentinels so much that one of them was found , some hours later , at the bottom of a well . Clive gradually accustomed them to danger , and , by exposing ...
... Clive rallied them . On another occasion , the noise of a gun terrified the sentinels so much that one of them was found , some hours later , at the bottom of a well . Clive gradually accustomed them to danger , and , by exposing ...
Page 527
... Clive , and remembered with bitterness the audacity with which the late governor of Bengal had repeatedly set at nought the authority of the distant Directors of the Company . An apparent reconciliation took place after Clive's arrival ...
... Clive , and remembered with bitterness the audacity with which the late governor of Bengal had repeatedly set at nought the authority of the distant Directors of the Company . An apparent reconciliation took place after Clive's arrival ...
Page 530
... Clive , and Clive alone , could save the empire which he had founded . This feeling manifested itself in the strongest manner at a very full General Court of Proprietors . Men of all parties , forgetting their feuds and trembling for ...
... Clive , and Clive alone , could save the empire which he had founded . This feeling manifested itself in the strongest manner at a very full General Court of Proprietors . Men of all parties , forgetting their feuds and trembling for ...
Contents
ENGLISH HISTORY | 3 |
Introduction by Douglas Jerrold | 18 |
BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES | 405 |
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