Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . This peace wasbut a truce ; badly kept in America, in India it was virtuallyignored, for the European Companies carried on their quarrelby selling their services to the rival princes whose strugglesfor the possession of the Deccan and the Carnatic devastatedSouthern India. At first the French and their allies were successful; butin Clive began to stem the tide of their victories. Threenames stand out c
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . This peace wasbut a truce ; badly kept in America, in India it was virtuallyignored, for the European Companies carried on their quarrelby selling their services to the rival princes whose strugglesfor the possession of the Deccan and the Carnatic devastatedSouthern India. At first the French and their allies were successful; butin Clive began to stem the tide of their victories. Threenames stand out conspicuously in our militaiy annals in theeighteenth century—^larlborough, Wolfe, and Clive. Marl-borougli and AVolfe Avere bred to arms, and learned theirtrade as subordinates before they rose to positions of com-mand. Not so with (live: he was not educated as a soldier. 1802] THE ARMY. 515 and at twenty-seven he was a mere clerk in the factory atMadras, when, under pressure of the French troubles, moreofficers were needed, and he was appointed captain in theservice of the East India Company. Almost before the ink onhis commission was dry, Clive had leapt into independent com-. Photo : ^\alke}? it , LORD CLIVE, ; PORTION OP PICTURE BY\ATHAXIEL DAXCE, (National Portrait Gallery.) mand, and had surprised the city of Arcot, an important point Defence ofin the enemys dominions. The French and their allies ad- ?^^°*-vanced against Clive, drove him into the citadel, and proceededto besiege it. The fortress was more than a mile in circum-ference ; the walls were in many places ruinous, the rampartstoo narrow for guns to be mounted on them, the parapetsweak and low. The only flanking tire along the walls wasfrom half-ruined towers, and in none of these could morethan a single cannon be mounted. The ditch was virtually 516 REVOLUTION AND REACTION. [1784 useless, for where it was not dry and filled up with rubbish,it was easily fordable. To hold this apparen
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