The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 6. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's Sons, 1878 |
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... government of Madras , and he received the commission of lieutenant - colonel in the king's army . He took Bombay on his way , and there commanded the land force which captured Gheriah , the stronghold of the Mahratta pirate , Angria ...
... government of Madras , and he received the commission of lieutenant - colonel in the king's army . He took Bombay on his way , and there commanded the land force which captured Gheriah , the stronghold of the Mahratta pirate , Angria ...
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... government of Bengal . " He had been formally made governor of Bengal by the court of directors at a time when his nominal superiors in Madras sought to recall him to their help there . But he had discerned the importance of the ...
... government of Bengal . " He had been formally made governor of Bengal by the court of directors at a time when his nominal superiors in Madras sought to recall him to their help there . But he had discerned the importance of the ...
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... Government has returned to his policy , for not a native gunner is now to be found save in a few unhealthy and isolated frontier posts . Clive's final return to England , a poorer man than he went out , in spite of still more tremendous ...
... Government has returned to his policy , for not a native gunner is now to be found save in a few unhealthy and isolated frontier posts . Clive's final return to England , a poorer man than he went out , in spite of still more tremendous ...
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... Government , responsible . distinguished coadjutor in the free trade agitation . Nor This remark , when it was spoken , passed unnoticed , being was it long before his fitness for parliamentary life was indeed nothing more than one of ...
... Government , responsible . distinguished coadjutor in the free trade agitation . Nor This remark , when it was spoken , passed unnoticed , being was it long before his fitness for parliamentary life was indeed nothing more than one of ...
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... government . In a frank , cordial letter which was delivered to Cobden on his landing in Liverpool , Lord Palmerston offered him the Presidency of the Board of Trade , with a seat in the Cabiuet . Many of his friends urgently pressed ...
... government . In a frank , cordial letter which was delivered to Cobden on his landing in Liverpool , Lord Palmerston offered him the Presidency of the Board of Trade , with a seat in the Cabiuet . Many of his friends urgently pressed ...
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