Essay on Clive Author:Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LORD CLIVE. P. 152. Montezuma. Atahualpa. See Prescott, Conquest of Mexico and Conquest of Peru. who won the battle of Buxar. At Buxar, October 23, 1764, M... more »ajor Munro defeated the Nabob of Oude, the latter losing 160 cannon and 6000 men. Strangely enough, Macaulay makes no other reference to the battle in this essay, although it was little inferior in importance to that of Plassey (p. 197). who perpetrated the massacre of Patna. Meer Cassim, in revenge for this defeat by the English, August 6, 1763, killed the English prisoners at Patna, and many influential natives. See p. 217. whether Holkar was a Hindoo or a Mussulman. Jeswunt Rao Holkar was a Hindoo, a chief of the Mahrattas, who gave much trouble to the English early in the present century. He died in 1811. the victories of Cortes were gained over savages. Does not Macaulay rather overstate his case in these sentences ? P. 153. the Great Captain. Gonsalvo Hernandez de Cordova, 1453-1515. the late Lord Powis, Lord Olive's eldest son. P. 154. whose love passes the love of biographers. " Thylove to me was wonderful, passing the love of women," 2 Sam. 1:26. Note how frequently Macaulay in these essays introduces parts of a scripture phrase, and with what happy effect. Compare the following from the Essay on Machiavelli: "The iron had not vet entered into the soul. The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged and reason was to be hoodwinked, when the harp of the poet was to be hung on the willows of the Arno, and the right hand of the painter was to forget its cunning." P. 155. one of his uncles. When three years old Clive went to live with his mother's brother, Mr. Bagley of Hope Hall, near Manchester. This explains the allusion in his homesick letter, p. 158. Perhaps the reason for his livi...« less