The Englishman in IndiaLongmans, Green, 1867 - 351 páginas |
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... arm , which has inflamed the shoulder and deprived me of the use of that limb ; then a blow in the ribs , which is a stoppage to my breath , & c . amongst whom we dwell , seeing our sober and righteous 44 THE ENGLISHMAN IN INDIA .
... arm , which has inflamed the shoulder and deprived me of the use of that limb ; then a blow in the ribs , which is a stoppage to my breath , & c . amongst whom we dwell , seeing our sober and righteous 44 THE ENGLISHMAN IN INDIA .
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... arms by the English Company , and set to work to blacken his former em- ployers with all the virulence of a discharged servant . The Persian proverb came true : — ' Two beggars can sleep on one rug ; Two kings cannot live in one country ...
... arms by the English Company , and set to work to blacken his former em- ployers with all the virulence of a discharged servant . The Persian proverb came true : — ' Two beggars can sleep on one rug ; Two kings cannot live in one country ...
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... arms against them . To resist this force , the English had some five hundred men , half of whom were worthless as soldiers , * under the command of one Peter Eckman , an ignorant superannuated Swede . Of cannon they had some two hundred ...
... arms against them . To resist this force , the English had some five hundred men , half of whom were worthless as soldiers , * under the command of one Peter Eckman , an ignorant superannuated Swede . Of cannon they had some two hundred ...
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... the world like a new discovery . The Nabob of Arcot , finding that Dupleix had been cajoling him , sent a body of ten thousand men of all arms , under the command of his eldest son , FIRST HALF OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY . 55.
... the world like a new discovery . The Nabob of Arcot , finding that Dupleix had been cajoling him , sent a body of ten thousand men of all arms , under the command of his eldest son , FIRST HALF OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY . 55.
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Charles Raikes. arms , under the command of his eldest son , to invest Madras . Paradis , with four hundred men and two ... arms , and to acquire the carriage and movements of the European soldier . Facts such as these -- the resistless ...
Charles Raikes. arms , under the command of his eldest son , to invest Madras . Paradis , with four hundred men and two ... arms , and to acquire the carriage and movements of the European soldier . Facts such as these -- the resistless ...
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