At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War

LibriVox recording of At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War by G. A. Henty. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. The story of the war in which the power of the great Mahratta confederacy was broken ended in the firm establishment of the British Empire the Indian Peninsula. When the struggle began, the Mahrattas were masters of no small portion of India; their territory comprising the whole country between Bombay and Delhi, and stretching down from Rajputana to Allahabad; while in the south they were lords of the district of Cuttack, thereby separating Madras from Calcutta.