After Mahmoud of Ghazni came Mohammed Ghori, in 1184, with one hundred and twenty thousand men; after him, Timur Tang, or Timur the Lame, whom we call Tamerlane, with sixty thousand men; after Tamerlane, Babar; after Babar, Humajan, and how many more I can't remember.

Why, India is there for whoever will go and take it!" "You forget, citizen First Consul, that all the conquerors you have named had only the aboriginal populations to deal with, whereas you have the English.

We hold India--" "With from twenty to twenty-two thousand men." "And a hundred thousand Sepoys." "I have counted them all, and I regard England and India, the one with the respect, the other with the contempt, they merit.

Wherever I meet European infantry, I prepare a second, a third, and if necessary, a fourth line of reserves, believing that the first three might give way before the British bayonets; but wherever I find the Sepoys, I need only the postilion's whip to scatter the rabble.

Have you any other questions to put to me, my lord ?" "One, citizen First Consul: are you sincerely desirous of peace ?" "Here is the letter in which I ask it of your king, my lord, and it is to be quite sure that it reaches his Britannic Majesty that I ask Lord Grenville's nephew to be my messenger." "It shall be done as you desire, citizen; and were I the uncle, instead of the nephew, I should promise more." "When can you start ?" "In an hour I shall be gone." "You have no wish to express to me before leaving ?" "None.