Ontario High School History of England . manystates supposed to beunder his sway werereally frontiersThk First Buiii>h Pusskssiong in India hardlv existed brig-andage and violence prevailed everywhere. It is estimatedthat not less than two million armed men were ready to selltheir services to any capable leader who could pay , the able governor of the French post at Pondi-cherry, saw that native troops were powerless before thesuperior organization of the Europeans. The helpless peoplewere accustomed to the alien and harsh rule of theMongol conqueror. Why, Du
Ontario High School History of England . manystates supposed to beunder his sway werereally frontiersThk First Buiii>h Pusskssiong in India hardlv existed brig-andage and violence prevailed everywhere. It is estimatedthat not less than two million armed men were ready to selltheir services to any capable leader who could pay , the able governor of the French post at Pondi-cherry, saw that native troops were powerless before thesuperior organization of the Europeans. The helpless peoplewere accustomed to the alien and harsh rule of theMongol conqueror. Why, Dupleix asked, should not Francedisplace him, and herself take the leading place in India?Dupleix took steps to prove that France, not Britain, wasfitted to perform such a task. After the French tookMadras in 1746 (p. 381), he paraded the captive Britishgarrison in triumph before the natives. To them the Frenchseemed the strong military power and the British poor-spirited traders. The career of Clive.—The success of the plan of Dupleix. THE HOUSE OF HANOVER 387
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