ASIN: B00DV3WGDM
Publisher: Createspace
Pages: 320
A single battle, fought on the afternoon of the 23rd of September 1803, forever changed the course of the history of India, and led to British rule for a period of 144 years…. The Patriarch, a story full of action and intrigue, is about the heroic actions of a native Indian youth who attracts the unwanted attention of a British General, and is forcibly conscripted into the British East India Company ranks, as a spy; and reveals why a purely mercantilist sea-faring nation sailed half across the world to conquer India, and how it managed to engineer the conquest of an empire 20 times its size, in just a few years, with a minimum of resources in men and material. History tells us that the late Eighteenth Century was a humbling time for King George. Following the loss of its Colonies in America, and under pressure in Continental Europe from Napoleon Bonaparte, the British Prime Minister ...
