With Clive in India: The Beginnings of an Empire

The period between the landing of Clive as a young writer in India and the close of his career was critical and eventful in the extreme. At its commencement the English were traders existing on sufferance of the native princes. At its close they were masters of Bengal and of the greater part of Southern India. This book gives a full and accurate account of the events of that stirring time, and battles and sieges follow each other in rapid succession.