... it was no light thing to engage an army twenty times as numerous as his own. Before him lay a river over which it was easy to advance, but over which, if things went ill, not one of his little band would ever return. Macaulay's Essay on Lord Clive - Page 68by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1902 - 186 pagesFull view - About this book
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