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Your slaves do not need your generosity or your advice to shatter the sacrilegious yoke that oppresses them. Nature speaks louder than... -
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When comte Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez, bailli de Suffren returned victorious from his campaign in the East Indies, as the...
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There is nothing on Earth like the arrival of the monsoon in India. The oppressive heat lies across the land, building as the blazing...
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There are as many paths to god as there are souls on Earth - Rumi A calendar shapes our way of thinking about the world, the natural...
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An idea I've had floating around for over a decade springs from the nature of the League of Corinth, Philip II's system for managing his...
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Hecatee replied to the thread WI: NACA Modified P-38.I'd love to give your guys a budget to actually build this super 100% hindsight P-38 plane, a pity I don't have the money ! You are...
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Descendons dans nos souterrains : La liberté nous y convie ; Elle parle, républicains Et c'est la voix de la patrie. Lavez la terre, en...
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The Battle of Kyathanahalli, a small village to the north-west of Mysore, would be the third great battle of the first year of the Third...
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One of British propaganda’s claims against Mysore, eager to make the link between Mysore and Revolutionary France, was that Tipu Sultan...
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With the entrance of Hyderabad and the Marathas into the war, Tipu Sultan was forced to turn his attention north, as the Marathas and...
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The British field army in Hyderabad, under the command of the British General John Little, was determined to protect their new de-facto...
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With nothing resolved between Mysore and the Marathas and the Nizam of Hyderabad, and ambitious Mysorean plans for aggrandizement...
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Crucial behind Mysorean victory in the Second Anglo-Mysore war was catastrophically poor British diplomacy, which managed to see them in...
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The British Empire in India emerged dearly injured from the Second Anglo-Mysore War, shorn of the Madras Presidency, the original home...
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Machiavelli insisted that “gold is not the sinews of war, but good soldiers.” Unfortunately for Machiavelli’s logic in India, when men...