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With Clive in India or the Beginnings of an Empire
1896
Summary
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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