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- Author: Herbert Strang
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 118
- ISBN-10: 1517283604
- ISBN-13: 9781517283605
- Format: 21.6 x 28 x 0.6 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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I have not attempted in this story to give a full account of the career of Lord Clive. That has been done by my old friend, Mr. Henty, in "With Clive in India." It has always seemed to me that a single book provides too narrow a canvas for the display of a life so full and varied as Clive's, and that a work of fiction is bound to suffer, structurally and in detail, from the compression of the events of a lifetime within so restricted a space. I have therefore chosen two outstanding events in the history of India--the capture of Gheria and the battle of Plassey--and have made them the pivot of a personal story of adventure. The whole action of the present work is comprised in the years from 1754 to 1757.
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- Author: Herbert Strang
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 118
- ISBN-10: 1517283604
- ISBN-13: 9781517283605
- Format: 21.6 x 28 x 0.6 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
I have not attempted in this story to give a full account of the career of Lord Clive. That has been done by my old friend, Mr. Henty, in "With Clive in India." It has always seemed to me that a single book provides too narrow a canvas for the display of a life so full and varied as Clive's, and that a work of fiction is bound to suffer, structurally and in detail, from the compression of the events of a lifetime within so restricted a space. I have therefore chosen two outstanding events in the history of India--the capture of Gheria and the battle of Plassey--and have made them the pivot of a personal story of adventure. The whole action of the present work is comprised in the years from 1754 to 1757.
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