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Download or read book Memoirs of the Life of the Right Hon Warren Hastings Vol 3 written by G. R. Gleig and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life of the Right Hon. Warren Hastings, Vol. 3: First Governor-General of Bengal, Compiled From Original Papers While these things were going on elsewhere, the important business of the war, including the immediate defence of the Carnatic, and the conduct of a variety of subsidiary operations, was not neglected. Of the mission of Sir Eyre Coote to assume the command of the army at Madras, as well as of the march of a large detachment of troops overland from Bengal, notice has elsewhere been taken. Sir Eyre found, on reaching the scene of action, that everything was there in confusion. The Sepoys, dispirited by recent reverses, could scarcely be brought to look the enemy in the face. The Europeans, few in number, were dispersed and broken up into petty garrisons. There was neither unity of purpose, nor vigour of design, among those whose business it was to direct in the field. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book The Trial of Warren Hastings written by Chiara Rolli and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impeachment trial of Warren Hastings lasted from 1788 until 1795. Hastings was the first Governor-General of Bengal and his trial had a formative impact on the British Empire. Chiara Rolli shows that in an age when British education consisted mainly of classical studies, it was antique views of rhetoric and imperial governance that permeated the trial. Prosecutor Edmund Burke was figured as a modern-day Cicero fighting corruption in the colonies, while Hastings was Verres, the corrupt propraetor of Sicily in the first century BC. In their prosecution, both Burke and Richard Brinsley Sheridan employed certain coups de théâtre – such as fainting for emphasis – advised by Cicero and the later Roman rhetorician Quintilian, whose style of spectacular justice played particularly well amid the eighteenth-century vogue for sentimental drama. Burke's defence of natural rights and passion for extirpating vice in the colonies similarly reflected an admiration for Cicero, just as Hastings' preference to rule the conquered by means of their own traditions recalled models of Roman provincial administration. Using contemporary journalism, satire and other ephemera, the book reconstructs the public's equally profound grasp of these parallels. It illuminates new aspects of early British discourse around the Empire, and shows how deeply classical precedents influenced the cultural and political imaginations of eighteenth-century Britain.
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