ROBERT TOMBS: How today's rapacious tech barons recall the private company so overmighty it even had TWICE as many soldiers as the British Army
The most dazzling oligarch in the world, 260 years ago, was probably Clive Of India, the spectacularly daring but grasping ...
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How the Old Fort William and St Anne’s Church were lost in the annals of Calcutta’s history
giving Calcutta its infamous Black Hole incident. Subsequent historians though disagreed with Holwell’s figure which they considered substantially exaggerated. Illustration of Black Hole incident of ...
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Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750–1914
He gives graphic descriptions of skirmishes, battles and sieges across its length and breadth, from the Black Hole of Calcutta to Francis Younghusband’s 1904 expedition to the Only a selection of our ...