Home  Antiquarian and collectors books - Military 19th century #8401 - Britain's Army in India, from Its Origins to the Conquest of Bengal - Lawford, James P.
Published by - George Allen & Unwin Condition - Very Good
18 Published by - George Allen & Unwin Condition - Very Good Size - 225x145mm Jacket Condition - Very Good Binding - Cloth ISBN - 0 04 954020 3 Edition - First Edition Publish Year -1978 Description - Tells how a joint stock company, the Honourable East India Company, came to organise a private army, the like of which the world has never known. In size and efficiency it came to rival that of a first class European power in the eighteenth century. 342 pages with various b/w maps.