The British nation a history / by George MWrong . high-handed manner, and thus gave Burke the ground for the im-peachment which led to thefamous trial lasting sevenyears. But the first Governor-General was an able and pa-triotic statesman, who madeBritains rule in India finallysecure at the very time thatAmerica was lost. Xapoleonsexpedition to Egypt in 1798was an avowed attempt tostrike British supremacy inIndia. An army of ten ortwenty thousand men withsucli a leader could have madegreat conquests ; but Napo-leon failed, as France had failed before, for want of navalcommunication with his ba
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . high-handed manner, and thus gave Burke the ground for the im-peachment which led to thefamous trial lasting sevenyears. But the first Governor-General was an able and pa-triotic statesman, who madeBritains rule in India finallysecure at the very time thatAmerica was lost. Xapoleonsexpedition to Egypt in 1798was an avowed attempt tostrike British supremacy inIndia. An army of ten ortwenty thousand men withsucli a leader could have madegreat conquests ; but Napo-leon failed, as France had failed before, for want of navalcommunication with his base. Meanwhile British swayin India continued to extend in spite of the efforts of thehome government to check it. By 1805, when the Gover-nor-General, Lord Wellesley, was recalled, its area wasenormous, and the annexations of territory continuedlong after the conclusion of peace in Europe in 1815;even to this day no one can say that final frontiers havebeen defined for the British dominions. It is in the seasons when Britain has been engaged in. Warren Hastings(1732-1818). THE GROWTH OF THE BRITISH DOMINIONS 581 European war that the restlessness of India has become marked. The Crimean War shook Britains military reputation, and it was industriously urged The Indian ^„ ^j^g enemies of Britain in India that she mutiny. could be driven out. The experiences of theCrimean War caused a change to improved weapons, andanti-British intriguers told the Hindoo soldiers, whoreverence the cow, and the Mohammedans, who think thepig unclean, that the new cartridges were oiled with cowsand pigs grease, practices that most of the native soldiersregarded with horror. There were other and complexcauses of discontent, and finally, in 1857, a terrible revoltbroke out. In it the populace took little part; it wasmainly a soldiers rising and was confined to the Bengalprovinces; Madras and Bombay remained quiet, and ^venin Bengal the mutiny was not universal. The horrorsperpetrated by the rebels sho
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