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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
4. His talents are distinguished during the retreat from Flanders,
5. Excellent effect of this campaign on his mind,
6. Colonel Wellesley sent to India, and first entry on command there,
ib.
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16. Lord Wellesley's first objects of policy, and early perception of the neces-
sity of war,
diate hostilities,
Harris,
28. Desperate defence of the mosque,
17. He is unable, from financial and military difficulties, to commence imme-
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,
21. Wellesley collects an army for the attack of Mysore,
22. Tippoo's means of defence,
23. Progress of General Harris's army,
24. Investment of Seringapatam,
25. Commencement of the siege, and able preliminary movement of General
26. A nocturnal attack under Colonel Wellesley is repulsed,
27. Assault of Seringapatam,
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34. His pursuit and overthrow by Colonel Wellesley,
29. Death of Tippoo, and his character,
30. Immense importance of the blow thus struck,
31. Appointment of Colonel Wellesley as governor of Seringapatam,
32. Judicious arrangements consequent on the fall of Mysore,
33. Rise and power of Doondiah Waugh,
35. Alliances with the Nizam and the Rajah of Tanjore,
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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,
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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, 58
54. Battle and fall of Agra,
63. Imminent danger and ultimate victory of the English,
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. Its arduous character,
72. Holkar's strength and its causes. Defeat and capture of Mohammed Beg
Its errors and early disasters,
74. Holkar's able conduct. Defeat of Colonel Fawcett in Bundelcund,
75. Advance of Colonel Monson's division,
76. His disasters and defeat,
Desperate action on the Bannas river,
77. Dreadful disasters of the close of the retreat,
78. Alarming fermentation through the whole of India,
79. Generous conduct and able resolutions of Lord Wellesley and Lord Lake, ib.