Hugh Murray-History of British India: with continuation comprising the afghan war, the conquest of ... sinde and gwalior, war in the punjab

Excerpt from History of British India

Attention is next invited to a train 01 events which are at once memorable in the military annals of the world, and deeply interesting to this country. The first of these is the conquest of British India; when a few merchants, with a handful of troops, and struggling against European and native rivalry, subverted all the states which had sprung from the ruins of the Mogul empire, and became arbiter-s of the destiny of upwards'of One Hundred Mil lions of human beings placed at the opposite extremity of the globe. In this important recital, the incidents which distinguished the several contests are exhibited in one view, instead of passing repeatedly from one to an other, and carrying all forward with a regard to nothing but the order of time. This plan, which is followed with such success by Mr. Hallam in his History of the Middle Ages, renders the narrative more perspicuous as well as more interesting.