1910. Macaulay was a popular English essayist and historian of the nineteenth century. This volume includes his essay on Lord Clive, who, at the peak of his military fame, had been the stunning victor at the Battle of Plassey, which succeeded in driving the French out of Bengal and placing the jewel of India atop the British crown. At the end of his career, he left British India with a firmly British-style civil service administration that would endure until India achieved independence in 1947. See other works by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.