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With Clive in India or the Beginnings of an Empire

1896

You wanted to wear a red coat and a sword and to swagger about the streets of Calcutta instead of making an honourable living and acquiring a fortune." " I don't think sir " Charlie said " that the idea of the red coat and sword entered into my mind ; but it seemed to me the choice of a life of activity and adventure against one as a mere clerk." " Had you entered the military service of the [...] Then the gentleman at the head of the table nodded to him and said he could go and instructions would be sent to him and that he was to prepare to sail in the Lizzie Anderson which would leave the docks in ten days' time and that he would be for the present stationed at Madras. [...] At the same moment three of the passengers took a steady aim over the bulwark at the helmsman of the other pfivatoer and simutaneously with the reports of their pieces the man was seen to fall. [...] The garrison and all the civilians in the place not in the service of the Company were to become prisoners of war while those in the regular service of the Company were free to depart engaging only not to carry arms against the French until exchanged. [...] I' After Dupleix had conquered Madras the nawab awoke to the fact of the danger of allowing the French to become all-powerful by the destruction of the English and ordered Dupleix to restore the place.
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Pages
382
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144772
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Frontmatter
1-10 G.A. Henty view
Chapter I Leaving Home
11-22 G.A. Henty view
Chapter II The Young Writer
23-34 G.A. Henty view
Chapter III A Brush with Privateers
35-46 G.A. Henty view
Chapter IV The Pirates of the Pacific
47-57 G.A. Henty view
Chapter V Madras
58-70 G.A. Henty view
Chapter VI The Arrival of Clive
71-82 G.A. Henty view
Chapter VII The Siege of Arcot
83-95 G.A. Henty view
Chapter VIII The Grand Assault
96-107 G.A. Henty view
Chapter IX The Battle of Kavaripak
108-120 G.A. Henty view
Chapter X The Fall of Seringam
121-132 G.A. Henty view
Chapter XI An Important Mission
133-146 G.A. Henty view
Chapter XII A Murderous Attempt
147-159 G.A. Henty view
Chapter XIII An Attempt at Murder
160-172 G.A. Henty view
Chapter XIV The Siege of Ambur
173-184 G.A. Henty view
Chapter XV The Pirates’ Hold
185-197 G.A. Henty view
Chapter XVI A Tiger Hunt
198-210 G.A. Henty view
Chapter XVII The Capture of Gheriah
211-226 G.A. Henty view
Chapter XVIII The “Black Hole” of Calcutta
227-239 G.A. Henty view
Chapter XIX A Daring Escape
240-252 G.A. Henty view
Chapter XX The Rescue of the White Captive
253-264 G.A. Henty view
Chapter XXI The Battle Outside Calcutta
265-276 G.A. Henty view
Chapter XXII Plassey
277-288 G.A. Henty view
Chapter XXIII Plassey
289-299 G.A. Henty view
Chapter XXIV Mounted Infantry
300-311 G.A. Henty view
Chapter XXV Besieged in a Pagoda
312-323 G.A. Henty view
Chapter XXVI The Siege of Madras
324-335 G.A. Henty view
Chapter XXVII Masulipatam
336-347 G.A. Henty view
Chapter XXVIII The Defeat of Lally
348-359 G.A. Henty view
Chapter XXIX The Siege of Pondicherry
360-371 G.A. Henty view
Chapter XXX Home
372-378 G.A. Henty view

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