Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . Fii3. 118. Quebec Wolfes army climbed the cliff (over 300 feet high) to the west of the city (left of the picture) and fought there on the plain known as the Heights of Abraham governor of the French station of Pondicherry was Dupleix,a soldier of great energy, who proposed to drive out the Eng-lish and firmly establish the power of France over chances of success were greatly increased by the quarrelsamong the native rulers, some of whom belo
Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . Fii3. 118. Quebec Wolfes army climbed the cliff (over 300 feet high) to the west of the city (left of the picture) and fought there on the plain known as the Heights of Abraham governor of the French station of Pondicherry was Dupleix,a soldier of great energy, who proposed to drive out the Eng-lish and firmly establish the power of France over chances of success were greatly increased by the quarrelsamong the native rulers, some of whom belonged to the earlierHindu inhabitants and some to the Mohammedan Mongolianswho had conquered India in 1526. Dupleix had very fewFrench soldiers, but he began the enlistment of the natives, a. INDIA about 1763 Scale or Milti Preuch FoiiHLKKlonsI I Fortuguewe Possegaloui Native Stntf!3 How England became Queen of the Ocean 435 custom eagerly adopted by the English. These native soldiers,whom the English called Sepoys, were taught to fight in themanner of Europeans. But the English colonists, in spite of the fact that they were Robert ciivemainly traders, discovered among the clerks in Madras a leader nativa troopsequal skill and energy to Dupleix himself. RobertClive, who was but twenty-five yearsold at this time, organized a largeforce of Sepoys and gained a re-markable ascendancy over them byhis astonishing bravery. At the moment that the SevenYears War was beginning, bad newsreached Clive from the Englishsettlement of Calcutta, about athousand miles to the northeast ofMadras. The nawab of Bengal hadseized the property of some Englishmerchants and imprisoned one hun-dred and forty-five Englishmen in alittle room, — the black hole ofCalcutta, — where most of
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