A History of the Mahrattas v2.c55.26

v2.c55.26

² [Lord Minto was so deeply engaged throughout his term of office in planning and executing the overseas expeditions which swept the fleets of France from the Indian seas and left England without a rival in the Eastern hemisphere, that he was practically debarred from interfering in Marāthā politics and from running the risk of causing a Marāthā war, which would have been deeply resented by the authorities at home. The whole available strength of India was absorbed in the capture of the French islands (1809–10), the conquest of the Moluccas (1810), and the conquest of Java (1811). (O.H.I., pp. 611–19.)]