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Page 513
... thousand infantry , armed with firelocks , pikes , swords , bows and arrows , covered the plain . They were accompanied by fifty pieces of ordnance of the largest size , each tugged by a long team of white oxen , and each pushed on from ...
... thousand infantry , armed with firelocks , pikes , swords , bows and arrows , covered the plain . They were accompanied by fifty pieces of ordnance of the largest size , each tugged by a long team of white oxen , and each pushed on from ...
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... thousand a year , and with savings amounting to thirty thousand pounds . A great quantity of wealth is made by English functionaries in India ; but no single functionary makes a very large fortune , and what is made is slowly , hardly ...
... thousand a year , and with savings amounting to thirty thousand pounds . A great quantity of wealth is made by English functionaries in India ; but no single functionary makes a very large fortune , and what is made is slowly , hardly ...
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... thousand pounds in adorning his seat . The general feeling both of the Directors and of the proprietors of the East India Company was that he had great claims on them , that his services to them had been eminent , and that his ...
... thousand pounds in adorning his seat . The general feeling both of the Directors and of the proprietors of the East India Company was that he had great claims on them , that his services to them had been eminent , and that his ...
Contents
ENGLISH HISTORY | 3 |
Introduction by Douglas Jerrold | 18 |
BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES | 405 |
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