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With Clive in India

CHAPTER 9: The Battle Of Kavaripak
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"Form up quietly and steadily.

We have beaten the enemy before, you know, and we will do so again." While the troops, in spite of the artillery fire, fell into line, Clive rapidly surveyed the ground.

He saw the enemy's infantry advancing up the watercourse, and so sheltered by it as to be out of the fire of his troops.

He saw their cavalry sweeping down on the other side of the watercourse, menacing his left and threatening his baggage.

The guns were at once brought up from the rear, but before these arrived the men were falling fast.
Three of the guns he placed to answer the French battery, two of them he hurried to his left, with a small body of English and two hundred Sepoys, to check the advance of the enemy's cavalry.


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