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As a major seat of power for the British during the colonial period, Madras occasionally got entangled in the conflicts between European powers. Madras had been a theatre in the many Anglo-French ...

ELTING: At this point you begin to see a failure of Napoleon's judgment. He had somehow lost his sense of proportion. He gets into Spain and he won't give up. Thousands died, but there was no ...