Excerpt from Lord Clive: The Foundation of British Rule in India IF Sir Walter Ralegh, as Mr Martin Hume described him in the volume with which the present series began, was the man who laid the foundation stone of the Colonial Empire Of Great Britain, Clive may be called with not less truth, in the words Of Sir Alfred Lyall, the man to whom above all others the English are indebted for the foundation of our Empire in India.' There have been few men who have so rapidly established such a reputation as was achieved by Clive ...
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Excerpt from Lord Clive: The Foundation of British Rule in India IF Sir Walter Ralegh, as Mr Martin Hume described him in the volume with which the present series began, was the man who laid the foundation stone of the Colonial Empire Of Great Britain, Clive may be called with not less truth, in the words Of Sir Alfred Lyall, the man to whom above all others the English are indebted for the foundation of our Empire in India.' There have been few men who have so rapidly established such a reputation as was achieved by Clive very shortly after he had reached his twenty-sixth year. The son of a small and impoverished country squire, belong ing to a family which, although Old, had never previously been distinguished, Robert Clive in a remarkably short time won for it a name second to none in the history of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This 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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