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1677 in the treaty of Breda: but France had
not ignored India as one of the battlefields
on which to decide the war which she was
waging against England in every quarter
of the globe. That desperate struggle for
world-wide supremacy was being - there
as everywhere - bitterly fought out, & formed
the greatest danger to the British foothold
in the East. The difficulties which Mornington
had to meet are hardly to be exaggerated.
It was not the mere power of
France that he had to fear, but the fact
that the mightiest of the native states were
being rapidly drawn into her friendship
& thus into enmity against Great Britain.

Wellesley arrival in India.

On April 26: 1798 Mornington landed at
Madras. His previous studies, & information
gained from Major Kirkpatrick &
other Indian authorities whom he met
at the Cape on his way out, had given
him an accurate knowledge of the complex
condition of Indian affairs in general
& those connected with the Company in
particular. His accomplishments - the result
of this knowledge - may be divided
into two branches, - his political achievements
in India, & his civil work improving
the internal system of the Company
itself. Though his fame rests, & rests

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