 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1859 - 584 pages
...despatch to the Board of Control, dated ' Camp before Seringapatam, March 4, 1791,' begins thus : — ' We have at length concluded our Indian war handsomely,...territorial acquisitions can possibly inspire them.' i The Secret Committee acknowledged his ' brilliant successes,' and in the July following he was jraised... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1859 - 750 pages
...despatch to the Board of Control, dated ' Camp before Seringapatam, March 4, 1791,' begins thus : — ' We have at length concluded our Indian war handsomely,...territorial acquisitions can possibly inspire them.' The Secret Committee acknowledged his ' brilliant successes,' and in the July following he was Jraised... | |
 | English literature - 1859 - 578 pages
...despatch to the Board of Control, dated ' Camp before Seringapatam, March 4, 1791,' begins thus : — ' We have at length concluded our Indian war handsomely,...territorial acquisitions can possibly inspire them.' The Secret Committee acknowledged his ' brilliant successes,' and in the July following he was (raised... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1859 - 750 pages
...despatch to the Board of Control, dated ' Camp before Seringapatam, March 4, 1791,' begins thus :— ' We have at length concluded our Indian war handsomely,...of our arms will greatly overbalance any confidence witli which their territorial acquisitions can possibly inspire them." The Secret Committee acknowledged... | |
 | 1859 - 650 pages
...despatch to the Board of Control, dated ' Camp before Seringapatam, March 4, 1791,' begins thus: — ' We have at length concluded our Indian war handsomely,...have received of the power and superiority of our amis will greatly overbalance any confidence with which their territorial acquisitions can possibly... | |
 | Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - Great Britain - 1921 - 454 pages
...confederates got one-third of the indemnity. Cornwallis summed up the results of the war by saving, 'We have effectually crippled our enemy, without making our friends too formidable '.' There was a pause for the moment, but the omens were not favourable for a lasting peace. Tipu was... | |
 | Sailendra Nath Sen - Great Britain - 1994 - 346 pages
...burden on the British. Cornwallis, therefore, was not vainglorious when he wrote to Dundas on 4 March 1792: We have at length concluded our Indian war handsomely...our enemy without making our friends too formidable. ... I shall therefore only express my hopes that the Gentlemen who talked so much nonsense about the... | |
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We have at length concluded our Indian war handsomely, and I think as advantageously as any reasonable person could expect. We have effectually crippled our enemy without making our friends too formidable. Indeed I am well convinced that the impression... 