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290 THE ADMINISTRATION OF LORD CORNWALLIS
a man of great ambition, political capacity, and talent
for war, who had carried out on a larger scale than
any other Indian prince the new system of raising dis-
TOMB OF THE SINDHIAS, AT LASHKAR.
ciplined battalions under European officers, supported
by effective artillery. But it had already been seen and
said by the more far-sighted leaders among the Marathas
themselves that this system, which rendered them irre-
sistible to all other native antagonists, to the loose
