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FROM
THE COMMENCEMENT OF
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
TO THE
RESTORATION OF THE BOURBONS
IN MDCCCXV
BY
SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON, BART., D.C.L.
Tenth Edition, with Portraits
VOL. VIII.
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
MDCCCLX
CONTENTS OF VOL. VIII.
CHAPTER XLIX.
ADMINISTRATION OF MARQUESS WELLESLEY, AND FIRST APPEARANCE OF
WELLINGTON IN INDIA.
1. Birth of Wellington and Marquess Wellesley,
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2. Illustrious men then rising into manhood in England and France,
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3. Wellington's education and first military services,
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4. His talents are distinguished during the retreat from Flanders,
5. Excellent effect of this campaign on his mind, .
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6. Colonel Wellesley sent to India, and first entry on command there,
7. His character as a public man,
8. His military character,
9. Great difficulties with which he had to contend in that capacity,
10. Admirable ability and skill with which he overcame them,
11. Character of Marquess Wellesley,
12. Character of his Indian administration,
13. Statesmanlike wisdom by which it was characterised,
14. Character of Lord Melville,
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15. His great abilities and vast information on Indian affairs,
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16. Lord Wellesley's first objects of policy, and early perception of the neces-
sity of war,
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17. He is unable, from financial and military difficulties, to commence imme-
diate hostilities,
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18. Rapid effect of Lord Wellesley's administration in improving affairs,
19. Successful reduction of the French subsidiary forces at Hyderabad,
20. Its great effects in India,
25. Commencement of the siege, and able preliminary movement of General
32. Judicious arrangements consequent on the fall of Mysore,
31. Appointment of Colonel Wellesley as governor of Seringapatam,
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36. And with the Imaum of Muscat and the King of Persia,
37. Expedition under Sir David Baird from India to Egypt,
38. Great acquisition of territory from the Vizier of Oude, .
39. Assumption of the government of the Carnatic, .
40. Causes of the rupture with the Mahrattas,
41. Character and situation of the Rajah of Berar, and of Scindiah, .
42. And of Holkar,
43. Reasons for a Mahratta war. Perron's French force,
44. The Peishwa at length joins the British alliance,
45. Collection of forces, and delivery of Poonah by Colonel Wellesley,
46. Negotiations with Scindiah and the Rajah of Berar,
47. War is at length declared,
48. Early history of Lord Lake,
49. His character,
50. Lord Wellesley's plan of operations,
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51. Defeat of Perron's force, and storming of Allighur,
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52. Battle of Delhi,
Lord Lake's strong opinion of the necessity of European troops in India, note, 57
53. Alliance with the Mogul emperor, and surrender of the French chiefs,
54. Battle and fall of Agra,
68. These disasters compel the confederates to sue for peace. Its terms,
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69. Pecuniary embarrassments of the government on the conclusion of the war, 73
70. Negotiations and rupture with Holkar,
71. Commencement of the war with Holkar.
72. Holkar's strength and its causes. Defeat and capture of Mohammed Beg
Its arduous character,
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Khan,
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73. Plan of the campaign against Holkar. Its errors and early disasters,
74. Holkar's able conduct. Defeat of Colonel Fawcett in Bundelcund,
75. Advance of Colonel Monson's division,
79. Generous conduct and able resolutions of Lord Wellesley and Lord Lake,