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CONTENTSPreface.Chapter 1:Leaving home.Chapter 2:The young writer.Chapter 3:A brush with privateers.Chapter 4:The pirates of the pacific.Chapter 5:Madras.Chapter 6:The arrival of clive.Chapter 7:The siege of arcot.Chapter 8:The grand assault.Chapter 9:The battle of kavaripak.Chapter 10:The fall of seringam.Chapter 11:An important mission.Chapter 12:A murderous attempt.Chapter 13:An attempt at murder.Chapter 14:The siege of ambur.Chapter 15:The pirates' hold.Chapter 16:A tiger hunt.Chapter 17:The capture of gheriah.Chapter 18:The "black hole" of calcutta.Chapter 19:A daring escape.Chapter 20:The rescue of the white captive.Chapter 21:The battle outside calcutta.Chapter 22:Plassey.Chapter 23:Plassey.Chapter 24:Mounted infantry.Chapter 25:Besieged in a pagoda.Chapter 26:The siege of madras.Chapter 27:Masulipatam.Chapter 28:The defeat of lally.Chapter 29:The siege of pondicherry.Chapter 30:Home.

The period between the landing of Clive in India and the close of his career was eventful in the extreme. At its commencement the English were traders existing on sufferance of the native princes; at its close they were masters of Bengal and of the greater part of Southern India. The author has given a full account of the events of that stirring time.

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George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 – 16 November 1902) was a prolific English novelist and war correspondent. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century. His works include The Dragon & The Raven (1886), For The Temple (1888), Under Drake's Flag (1883) and In Freedom's Cause (1885).G. A. Henty was born in Trumpington, near Cambridge. He was a sickly child who had to spend long periods in bed. During his frequent illnesses he became an avid reader and developed a wide range of interests which he carried into adulthood. He attended Westminster School, London, and later Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was a keen sportsman. He left the university early without completing his degree to volunteer for the Army Hospital Commissariat when the Crimean War began. He was sent to the Crimea and while there he witnessed the appalling conditions under which the British soldier had to fight. His letters home were filled with vivid descriptions of what he saw. His father was impressed by his letters and sent them to The Morning Advertiser newspaper which printed them. This initial writing success was a factor in Henty's later decision to accept the offer to become a special correspondent, the early name for journalists now better known as war correspondents.Henty once related in an interview how his storytelling skills grew out of tales told after dinner to his children. He wrote his first children's book, Out on the Pampas in 1868, naming the book's main characters after his children. The book was published by Griffith and Farran in November 1870 with a title page date of 1871. While most of the 122 books he wrote were for children, he also wrote adult novels, non-fiction such as The March to Magdala and Those Other Animals, short stories for the likes of The Boy's Own Paper and edited the Union Jack, a weekly boy's magazine.His children's novels typically revolved around a boy or young man living in troubled times. These ranged from the Punic War to more recent conflicts such as the Napoleonic Wars or the American Civil War. Henty's heroes – which occasionally included young ladies – are uniformly intelligent, courageous, honest and resourceful with plenty of 'pluck' yet are also modest. These virtues have made Henty's novels popular today among many Christians and homeschoolers.Henty usually researched his novels by ordering several books on the subject he was writing on from libraries, and consulting them before beginning writing. Some of his books were written about events (such as the Crimean War) that he witnessed himself; hence, these books are written with greater detail as Henty drew upon his first-hand experiences of people, places, and events.On 16 November 1902, Henty died aboard his yacht in Weymouth Harbour, Dorset, leaving unfinished his last novel, By Conduct and Courage, which was completed by his son Captain C.G. Henty.Henty is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London. (wikipedia.org)

Excerpt from With Clive in India, or the Beginnings of an EmpireMY dear lads, - Ih the following pages I have endeavored to give you a vivid picture of the wonder ful events of the ten years, which at their commence ment saw Madras in the hands of the French Calcutta at the mercy of the Nabob of Bengal - and the Eng lish influence apparently at the point of extinction in India - and which ended in the final triumph of the English both in Bengal and Madras. There were yet great battles to be fought, great efiorts to be made, before the vast Empire of India fell altogether into British hands; but these were but the sequence of the events I have described.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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