A History of The Indian Wars
| dc.contributor.author | CLEMENT DOWNING | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-24T07:00:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-12-24T07:00:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1978 | |
| dc.description | IN the rare little volume here reprinted an English sailor narrates his adventures in the East Indies between the years 1715 and 1723. During that period (broken though it was by a return for a time to England) he played many parts : sailor on board three East Indiamen in succession : mate in a ' country ' vessel (i.e. one trading in the East Indies only) : officer in the armed naval forces of the Company at Bombay : seaman and (according to his own account) petty officer in a royal navy ship : captain of artillery in a Mughal army operating in Gujarat. His other experiences were equally varied. Though he served chiefly on the western coast of . India, he visited also Muskat, the Gulf of Aden, Madras, Calcutta, Mauritius, Reunion, Madagascar, and the Comoros, besides the places touched at during the voyages out and h_ome. He took part in several fights with the Marii.thas and other Indians, both on sea and land, and some of his most stirring pages describe the unsuccessful assaults that were made upon the strongholds of Angria. Of Commodore Mathews's expedition to Madagascar in search of the European pirates wlio were making havoc of Eastern trade he furnishes a full account, with some curious particulars concerning the ex-pirates w!"io had settled down in that island. His service as a Mughal gunner provides what is in some respects the most interesting chapter in the book ; while we are also given many glimpses of life at Bombay and other places on the west coast, including the earliest mention of cricket being played in India. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://digitallibrary.punjab.gov.pk//handle/123456789/125106 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | AL-BIRUNI, LAHORE | en_US |
| dc.subject | Indian wars | en_US |
| dc.subject | A HISTORY OF THE INDIAN WARS | en_US |
| dc.subject | CLEMENT DOWNING | en_US |
| dc.subject | WILLIAM FOSTER, C.I.E. | en_US |
| dc.title | A History of The Indian Wars | en_US |
| dc.type | Book | en_US |