The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
Excerpt: ... they could do again what they had done once, at a point not far distant from their own shores. They understood the state of the case. Not so with Madras. How profound must have been the surprise of the native princes at this surrender, how injurious to the personality of Dupleix and the influence he had gained among them, to see him, in the very hour of victory, forced, by a power they could not 278 understand, to relinquish his spoil! They were quite right; the mysterious power which they recognized by its working, though they saw it not, was not in this or that man, king or statesman, but in that control of the sea which the Fr…
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- ISBN: 978-1-153-70698-8
- EAN: 9781153706988
- Produktnummer: 6728608
- Verlag: Books LLC, Reference Series
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 212 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B18.9 cm x D1.1 cm 549 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 549
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