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With Clive in India : or the beginnings of an empire
Henty, G.A.
With Clive in India : or the beginnings of an empire G.A.Henty - First edition - New Delhi Rupa 2015 - 269 pages ; 20 cm.
After his father's death, Charlie Marryat, along with his friend Peters, joins the East India Company as a clerk and travels to Madras, India. There, they meet Robert Clive, an ambitious young man who had successfully quelled many a mutiny and gone from being a clerk to an able military leader. Bored of their mundane work, Charlie and Peters decide to enlist under Clive as private soldiers in the fight against the Dutch and the French. Their lives take a complete turn as they participate in several exciting battles and form lasting bonds with their fellow soldiers.
9788129131287
Fiction
954.031 / HEN
With Clive in India : or the beginnings of an empire G.A.Henty - First edition - New Delhi Rupa 2015 - 269 pages ; 20 cm.
After his father's death, Charlie Marryat, along with his friend Peters, joins the East India Company as a clerk and travels to Madras, India. There, they meet Robert Clive, an ambitious young man who had successfully quelled many a mutiny and gone from being a clerk to an able military leader. Bored of their mundane work, Charlie and Peters decide to enlist under Clive as private soldiers in the fight against the Dutch and the French. Their lives take a complete turn as they participate in several exciting battles and form lasting bonds with their fellow soldiers.
9788129131287
Fiction
954.031 / HEN