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... Great Mogul , the last king of Delhi , has just died in exile . He was banished by the Indian government for his treachery during the mutiny of the Sepoys in 1857 . Getes ( the Jats or Juts of Hindostan , ) 20 THE ENGLISHMAN IN INDIA .
... Great Mogul , the last king of Delhi , has just died in exile . He was banished by the Indian government for his treachery during the mutiny of the Sepoys in 1857 . Getes ( the Jats or Juts of Hindostan , ) 20 THE ENGLISHMAN IN INDIA .
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... Sepoys . For the first time the English saw natives of India and negroes , disciplined after the European method , in arms against them . To resist this force , the English had some five hundred men , half of whom were worthless as ...
... Sepoys . For the first time the English saw natives of India and negroes , disciplined after the European method , in arms against them . To resist this force , the English had some five hundred men , half of whom were worthless as ...
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... Sepoy , when duly instructed and drilled after the method of Euro- pean warfare , may give valuable aid to his employer . The English , in their depressed state , had time to ponder over these facts ; nor , as we shall soon see , did ...
... Sepoy , when duly instructed and drilled after the method of Euro- pean warfare , may give valuable aid to his employer . The English , in their depressed state , had time to ponder over these facts ; nor , as we shall soon see , did ...
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... Sepoys , and a large body of the Nabob's horse , to besiege the French in Pondicherry . This attempt failed . And whilst the French chanted the Te Deum , and Dupleix despatched couriers right and left to announce his victory , the ...
... Sepoys , and a large body of the Nabob's horse , to besiege the French in Pondicherry . This attempt failed . And whilst the French chanted the Te Deum , and Dupleix despatched couriers right and left to announce his victory , the ...
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... Sepoys , unless there were fighting of some sort ? If their hands were tied against one another , was there no native whose battle they might take up ? In this temper of mind , an unfortunate prince ' was soon found in the person of one ...
... Sepoys , unless there were fighting of some sort ? If their hands were tied against one another , was there no native whose battle they might take up ? In this temper of mind , an unfortunate prince ' was soon found in the person of one ...
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