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At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War by G. A. Henty ( Author )
Lemonjar
Australian National University
01-01-1901
Click "free sample" to read the whole book no need to purchase. Confederacy was broken, is one of the most stirring pages of the campaigns which, begun by Clive, ended in the firm estab lishment of our great empire in the Indian Peninsula. When the struggle began, the Mahrattas were masters of no small portion of India, their territory comprising the whole country between Bombay and Delhi, and stretching down from Rajputana to Allahabad, while in the south they were lords of the district of Cuttack, thereby separating Madras from Calcutta. The jealousies of the great Mahratta leaders Bolkar and Scindia, who were constantly at war with each other, or with the Peishwa at Poona, greatly facilitated our operations, and enabled us, although at the cost of much blood, to free a large portion of India from a race that was a scourge - faithless, intriguing and crafty, cruel, and reckless of life. The Mahrattas, conquering race as they were, yet failed in the one virtue of courage. They could sweep the land with hordes of wild horsemen, could harry peaceful districts and tyrannize over the towns they conquered, but they were unable to make an effective stand against British bayonets and British sabres. They were a race of free.
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