The Struggle Between England And France for Supremacy in India. the "le Bas" Prize Essay for 1886
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But it does not appear that any such eager desire for peace possessed them. The late hostilities seem, on the whole, rather to have served to inflame their ambition, than to fatigue them. The great reason, however, which rendered it so difficult for them to refuse the prizes held out as the reward of their assistance, was the great^n^jmber of troops, which hadr~ been gathered, together in India in the late struggle. These were far more numerous than was necessary for their safety, and were, bes...ides, the source of no inconsiderable expense ; and, as Mill characteristically remarks, " with the masters of troops, it seems to be a law of nature, whenever they possess them in a greater abundance than is necessary for defence, to employ them for the dis- turbance of others." Leaving out of the question, for the moment, the im- portant factor in the subsequent history of French and FIRST PERIOD OF THE WAR. 55 English in India, which this great accession of troops on both sides forms ; and also leaving out of the question another factor of equal importance — the prestige they had gained in the native mind, by their actions during the war — let us regard each community as placed once more upon its original footing by the treaty of Aix-la- Chapelle.
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