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At the tender age of 16, Thomas Seaton took up a cadetship in the East India Company in 1822, and waved farewell to his native London for a career of soldiering in India. He was to spend most of his life in the Indian sub-continent and its border regions, at the sharp end of the expansion of the British Empire. Plunged into a new world of sights and scenes of India, Lieutenant Seaton of the 35th Native Infantry had little time to adjust before beginning...
Author
Language
English
Description
At the tender age of 16 Thomas Seaton took up a cadetship in the East India Company in 1822, and waved farewell to his native London for a career of soldiering in India. He was to spend most of his life in the Indian sub-continent and its border regions, at the sharp end of the expansion of the British Empire. Plunged into a new world of sights and scenes of India Lieutenant Seaton of the 35th Native Infantry had little time to adjust before beginning...
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