Captain Musafir's Rambles in Alpine Lands

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W.H. Allen, 1884 - 150 páginas

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Página 137 - Final French Struggles in India and on the Indian Seas. Including an Account of the Capture of the Isles of France and Bourbon, and Sketches of the most eminent Foreign Adventurers in India up to the period of that Capture. With an Appendix containing an Account of the Expedition from India to Egypt in 1801. By Colonel GB MALLESON, CSI Crown 8vo.
Página 137 - History of the French in India, from the Founding of Pondichery in 1674 to its Capture in 17G1.
Página 137 - Colonel Malleson has produced a volume alike attractive to the general reader and valuable for its new matter to the special student. It is not too much to say that now, for the first time, we are furnished with a faithful narrative of that portion of European enterprise in India which turns upon the contest waged by the East India Company against French influence, and especially against Dupleix.
Página 137 - How India escaped from the government of prefects and sub-prefects to fall under that of Commissioners and Deputy-Commissioners ; why the Penal Code of Lord Macaulay reigns supreme instead of a Code Napoleon ; why we are not looking on helplessly from Mahe, Karikal, and Pondicherry, while the French are ruling all over Madras, and spending millions of francs in attempting to cultivate the slopes of the Neilgherries, may be learnt from this modest volume.
Página 137 - Pondicherry, while the French are ruling all over Madras, and spending millions of francs in attempting to cultivate the slopes of the Neilgherries, may be learnt from this modest volume. Colonel Malleson is always painstaking, and generally accurate ; his style is transparent, and he never loses sight of the purpose with which he commenced to write.
Página 138 - We have never read a volume in which this merit is more conspicuously displayed : and a history which, in unskilful hands, might have become confused to the last degree, is made remarkably clear and intelligible.
Página 101 - Havard went over to one of the windows and tried to open it, but it was nailed shut.

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