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FRANCE DOOMED TO FAILURE IN INDIA
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ing the Seven Years' War was an exploit far beyond Lally's power or capacity.
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AN INDIAN NATIVE RULER.
India was not lost by the French because Dupleix was recalled, or because Labourdonnais and D'Aché both left the coast at critical moments, or because Lally was headstrong and intractable. Still less was the loss due to any national inaptitude for distant and perilous enterprises, in which the French have always displayed high qualities. The record of their exploration and adventure in America and Asia during the seventeenth
