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... leaving Lahore : ' I doe enjoy at this time as pancraticall and athletical a health as ever I did in my life , ' determining in his next booke ' to be painted sitting on an elephant ; but was ailing when in Sir Thomas Roe's camp , and ...
... leaving Lahore : ' I doe enjoy at this time as pancraticall and athletical a health as ever I did in my life , ' determining in his next booke ' to be painted sitting on an elephant ; but was ailing when in Sir Thomas Roe's camp , and ...
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... leaving the oldest British settlement to the mercy of a tyrannical Indian governor . Notwithstanding this reverse , and the many difficulties which from time to time beset the English in India , the increasing importance of their ...
... leaving the oldest British settlement to the mercy of a tyrannical Indian governor . Notwithstanding this reverse , and the many difficulties which from time to time beset the English in India , the increasing importance of their ...
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... this post , the French officer in command desired the prisoners to write a letter to the effect , that if the English attacked the pagoda , Revel and Glass should About the middle of December , Clive , leaving a 76 THE ENGLISHMAN IN INDIA .
... this post , the French officer in command desired the prisoners to write a letter to the effect , that if the English attacked the pagoda , Revel and Glass should About the middle of December , Clive , leaving a 76 THE ENGLISHMAN IN INDIA .
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Charles Raikes. About the middle of December , Clive , leaving a sufficient garrison in Arcot , returned by way of ... leaving their two prisoners behind . a batch of two hundred European recruits , the sweep- CLIVE'S MID CAREER FROM ...
Charles Raikes. About the middle of December , Clive , leaving a sufficient garrison in Arcot , returned by way of ... leaving their two prisoners behind . a batch of two hundred European recruits , the sweep- CLIVE'S MID CAREER FROM ...
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... leaving the English soldiers to follow ingloriously in the boats . I mention this as one of the rare occasions on which native soldiers excelled Europeans in actual service . But at this moment the Sepoys were convinced of the ikbal ...
... leaving the English soldiers to follow ingloriously in the boats . I mention this as one of the rare occasions on which native soldiers excelled Europeans in actual service . But at this moment the Sepoys were convinced of the ikbal ...
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