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OUR ANGLO-INDIAN ARMY.
such being the modest title assumed by this daring freebooter. He had elevated some of his officers to the rank of Azoffs and Nabobs; and had not his progress received a timely check, he might have been a second Hyder Ali, in a country where states and dynasties have frequently sprung up from equally trivial and disreputable beginnings.
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Soon after the fall of Seringapatam, the Marquis Wellesley had suggested to the Ministers at home the practicability of employing a force from India, to co-operate with any that might be despatched from Great Britain against the French in Egypt. The suggestion was
