The Englishman in IndiaLongmans, Green, 1867 - 351 páginas |
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... soldiers of Portugal were thus seizing a noble prey , her priests and poets followed close behind . Camoens wedded the exploits of Vasco de Gama to ' immortal verse ' in his ' Luciad , ' and with his own sword helped to achieve that ...
... soldiers of Portugal were thus seizing a noble prey , her priests and poets followed close behind . Camoens wedded the exploits of Vasco de Gama to ' immortal verse ' in his ' Luciad , ' and with his own sword helped to achieve that ...
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... soldiers , consisting of a double file , led by a sergeant . The present deputy has only forty moormen , and a flag - man , carrying St. George , his colours swallow - tailed in silk , fastened to a silver partisan ; with a small ...
... soldiers , consisting of a double file , led by a sergeant . The present deputy has only forty moormen , and a flag - man , carrying St. George , his colours swallow - tailed in silk , fastened to a silver partisan ; with a small ...
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... soldiers to keep a punch - house and billiard - table , and to send in false returns to his employers , in aid of the tavern funds . The home government , until the days when all their attention was absorbed by jealousy of rival trading ...
... soldiers to keep a punch - house and billiard - table , and to send in false returns to his employers , in aid of the tavern funds . The home government , until the days when all their attention was absorbed by jealousy of rival trading ...
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... soldiers , * under the command of one Peter Eckman , an ignorant superannuated Swede . Of cannon they had some two hundred pieces ; but neither ammunition nor artillery- men to work them . The Nabob of Arcot , in whom the English had ...
... soldiers , * under the command of one Peter Eckman , an ignorant superannuated Swede . Of cannon they had some two hundred pieces ; but neither ammunition nor artillery- men to work them . The Nabob of Arcot , in whom the English had ...
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... soldiers , armed with sword and shield , or bows and arrows , for the defence of Fort St. David and Cuddalore . They soon gave up this sort of material , and put their muskets into hands fitted by regular training to do credit to their ...
... soldiers , armed with sword and shield , or bows and arrows , for the defence of Fort St. David and Cuddalore . They soon gave up this sort of material , and put their muskets into hands fitted by regular training to do credit to their ...
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