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George Bruce Malleson
George Bruce Malleson (1825–1898) was a British army officer and prolific writer, known for his historical works, especially on India. He authored several influential books, including "History of the Indian Mutiny" and "The Decisive Battles of India." Malleson served in the Bengal Infantry and later became an expert on British-Indian military history, focusing on campaigns and the political landscape of the British Raj. His detailed historical accounts are still valued for their insight into 19th-century British India and colonial military strategies.
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CHAPTER IEY Towards the close of the year 1744 there landed at Madras, as writer in the service of the East India Company, a young Englishman just entering the twentieth year of his existence, named Robert Clive. The earlier years of the life of this young man had not been promising. Born at Styche, near Market Drayton, in Shropshire, he had been sent, when three years old, to be cared for and educated...
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CHAPTER IT I crave the indulgence of the reader whilst I explain as briefly as possible the plan upon which I have written this short life of the great sovereign who firmly established the Mughal dynasty in India. The original conception of such an empire was not Akbar's own. His grandfather, Bábar, had conquered a great portion of India, but during the five years which elapsed between the...
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