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Автор: Ian Knight
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год издания: 1990
isbn: 0850459435
Количество страниц: 50
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Размер: 17.5 Мб
Каталожный номер: 71864
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By the time Queen Victoria came to the throne, India – some 1,600,000 square miles, ranging from soaring mountains to deserts and jungle swamps, populated by 400,000,000 people with a kaleidoscope of different cultures and religions – was firmly in the grip of a handful of British East India Company administrators, either ruling directly or through Indian nominees. However, the Company's search for a policy in western India embroiled it in a string of military campaigns, including one of the worst disasters ever to befall a British army. Ian Knight's fascinating text examines the absorbing, dramatic and brutal history of the Company's exploits against Victoria's Indian enemies.
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