Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887 . norable East India Company grew to a colonyof national importance. It possessed an army and a navy,it had the right of eminent domain, it had a commercialmonopoly the greatest ever known, and the people underits control numbered many millions. It possessed thepowers of a state and likewise its ambitions ; it conqueredterritories neighboring to its own and then looked formore territories to conquer. Kingdoms and principalitiesof India were brought under its sway, and there was hardlya decade in the two hund
Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887 . norable East India Company grew to a colonyof national importance. It possessed an army and a navy,it had the right of eminent domain, it had a commercialmonopoly the greatest ever known, and the people underits control numbered many millions. It possessed thepowers of a state and likewise its ambitions ; it conqueredterritories neighboring to its own and then looked formore territories to conquer. Kingdoms and principalitiesof India were brought under its sway, and there was hardlya decade in the two hundred and fifty years of its existencein which it was not at war with neighboring powers. Itgenerally came off victorious, thanks to the splendid fight-ing qualities which British soldiers have displayed throughmany ages, backed by the well-known British policv ofnever submitting to temporary defeat at the hands ofAsiatics. While the British in the early part of the present cent-ury were extending their boundaries in the northwestprovinces of India, the kingdom of Burmah displayed a 17. CHAPTER II. BATTLE OF PROME—1825. FROM America we will pass nearly half way around theglobe in our search for the next decisive battle after thatof Ayacucho. All students of history are well aware that the Britishpower in India in the first half of the present century wasrepresented by the East India Company. From an asso-ciation of merchants trading to the East Indies in A. , the Honorable East India Company grew to a colonyof national importance. It possessed an army and a navy,it had the right of eminent domain, it had a commercialmonopoly the greatest ever known, and the people underits control numbered many millions. It possessed thepowers of a state and likewise its ambitions ; it conqueredterritories neighboring to its own and then looked formore territories to Kingdoms and principalitiesof India were brought under its sway, and there was hardlya decade in the two hundred
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