Identifier: empirestorystori01mars (find matches)
Title: An empire story; stories of India and the greater colonies told to children
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth), 1867-1941
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Publisher: New York, F.A. Stokes Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ish were onlysupposed to be helping the native rulers. But the realstruggle was not between two Indian princes, but be-tween France and Britain, between Chve and Dupleix.They were both great men, but Dupleix was a statesman,not a soldier. He had to trust to others to carry outhis plans and orders. And the French generals wereold and stupid, while against them they had a * heavenborn general young and eager. Soon it was the British, not the French, who wereall-powerful in the Carnatic. The French nawab,Chanda Sahib, was killed, and the British nawab,Mohammed Ali, was put in his place. Then Clive, weary of war, and much in need of rest,sailed home. He had set out for India a poor and ratherdespised boy. He came home a hero and conqueror ofworld-wide fame. Wherever he went he was feted andcheered. The directors of the Company called him* General Clive although he was really only a captain.They loaded him with thanks, and presented him witha sword, the hilt of which was set with diamonds.
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CLIVE IlUED 0>*E OF THE UUIS6 HlilSEEF. THE SIEGE OF ARCOT 391 Meanwhile Dupleix, Clives great rival, struggled ontrying to win back for France what had been lost. Buthe got little help or encouragement from home. Hisking did not care and did not understand what a greatkingdom Dupleix had won, and with proper help mighthave been able to keep for him,—a kingdom larger thanthe whole of France itself. So at last Dupleix wascalled home in disgrace. For a few years he livedmiserably, and at last died forsaken. Three days beforehe died he wrote, * I have given my youth, my fortune,my life, to enrich my country in Asia. My services aretreated as fables, and 1 as the vilest of mankind.La Bourdonnais too had been disgraced and imprisoned,and died in misery. They were not the last men who were to earn world-wide fame in India, and disgrace at home. CHAPTER IX THE BLACK HOLE While these things were passing in the Carnatic theBritish at Calcutta had been trading quietly, growingrich and pros

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