Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c60.s4.1

v4.c60.s4.1

For Wellington's Indian campaigns in 1803, the Marāthi records cited here enable us "to see what was on the other side of the hill" as he called it; they make the great General's measures and policy understandable by supplying a full knowledge of the forces and facts that influenced each step that he took. The historian can now visit both the rival camps. The records in these two oriental languages, as well as the British Residents' despatches (of which the news portion is always a summary translation of Persian akhbārs received by them), have made it necessary to correct many statements of the current English works on the European military adventures in India, such as Francklin's George Thomas, Keene's India under the Freelances, Herbert Compton's Particular Account, and above all the French lives of De Boigne and Perron. Martineau's Le Général Perron is sadly unreliable for so modern a work by such a great authority.