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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. On a pleasant October morning in the year 1746, a small army of one thousand men put together by the French East India Company, consisting of 300 hundred Europeans and 700 hundred Sepoys, the French-trained Indian soldiers, faced a massive Mughal Army of 10,000 across the Adyar estuary on the Southeastern seaboard of India. In a feat of arms that has few parallels in history, the puny French force forded across the river braving artillery, and trounced their opponents in a classical show of European musketry salvo; drawn up in three ranks and advancing while firing successive volleys of shot, before they pounced on the enemy with bayonets. The French had made a point; numbers didn't matter, training and discipline did. This landmark event in Indian History was to conceptualize the greatest military enterprise the subcontinent has ever known - the creation of the Indian Army. The British, who were mere bystanders to the event, were to pick up the trend and raise the first of their Presidency Armies, the Madras Army, and closely thereafter the other two, the Bengal and the Bombay ones; all of which were later, towards the end of the 19th Century, to be amalgamated to form the grand edifice that's the Indian Army. Here, contained in the pages of this book, is a vivid recreation of the glorious battles the old Madras Army fought, those of the Carnatic, Mysore and Maratha Wars in India, and of the Burma and China Wars overseas; as well as those their descendants, the soldiers from the South in the Indian Army, fought during the two World Wars overseas and in wars that independent India fought. It's a two-and-a-half-century old saga of guts, gore and glory, from Adyar to Kargil all the way, that the doughty fighters of the South have woven in to the fabric of Indian nationhood; and part of the grand legacy that goes into the making of an Indian Soldier; always and every time, 'Better than the Best'.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Contents: Overview of the chapters. 1. Battle of Colachel 1741. 2. Battle of Adyar 1746. 3. Siege of Arcot 1751. 4. Battle for Trichinopoly 1752. 5. Battle of Plassey 1757. 6. Siege of Madras 1758-1759. 7. Battle of Manila 1762. 8. War for Madurai 1763-1764. 9. Battle of Buxar 1764. 10. Battle of Seringapattam 1799. 11. Battle of Assaye 1803. 12. Vellore Mutiny 1806. 13. The Gurkha War 1814-1816. 14. The Third Maratha War 1817-1819. 15. The First Burma War 1824-1826. 16. The First Afghan War 1839-1842. 17. The First China War 1840-1842. 18. Battle of Meeanee 1843. 19. The Sikh Wars 1845-1849. 20. The Second Burma War 1852. 21. The Persian War 1856-1857. 22. The Second China War 1856-1860. 23. The Sepoy Rebellion 1857-1858. 24. The Abyssinian Expedition 1867-1868. 25. The Second Afghan War 1878-1880. 26. The Third Burma War 1885-1887. 27. Battle of Saragarhi 1897. 28. The Boxer Rebellion 1899-1901. 29. The Boer war 1899-1902. 30. The Tibetan Expedition 1903-1904. 31. World War I 1914-1918 The Western Front. 32. World War I 1914-1918 East Africa. 33. World War I 1914-1918 The Middle East. 34. The Third Afghan War 1919. 35. The Frontier Wars 1849-1947. 36. World War II 1939-1945 North African Campaign. 37. World War II 1939-1945 Italian Campaign. 38. World War II 1939-1945 Burma Campaign. 39. Battle of Kohima World War II 1944. 40. The Kashmir War 1947-1948. 41. Annexation of Hyderabad 1948. 42. Liberation of Goa 1961. 43. The Sino-Indian War 1962. 44. The Indo-Pak War 1965. 45.The Bangladesh Liberation War 1971. 46. The Indo-Pak War 1971 Western Sector. 47. The Siachen Conflict 1984 Present. 48. The Sri Lankan Imbroglio 1987-1990. 49. Kargil conflict 1999. 50 Counter-Insurgency Operations. 51. Under the UN Flag.…

Zustand: Very Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Shows some signs of wear but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Zustand: Very Good. NEW/UNUSED, Slight shelfwear to the book. Reading content is fine.