With Clive in India; Or, The Beginnings of an Empire
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    With Clive in India; Or, The Beginnings of an Empire
                                            
                            By G. A. Henty
                            
                                27 Aug, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        In the following pages I have endeavoured to give a vivid picture of the wonderful events of the ten years, which at their commencement saw Madras in the hands of the French--Calcutta at the mercy of the Nabob of Bengal--and English influence apparen
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                                                In the following pages I have endeavoured to give a vivid picture of the wonderful events of the ten years, which at their commencement saw Madras in the hands of the French--Calcutta at the mercy of the Nabob of Bengal--and English influence apparently at the point of extinction in India--and which ended in the final triumph of the English, both in Bengal and Madras. There were yet great battles to be fought, great efforts to be made, before the vast Empire of India fell altogether into British hands; but these were but the sequel of the events I have described. Less