... tracts of land in exchange for French-trained sepoys. In this way France came to control a large part of southern India. The British cause seemed doomed--until a suggestion arose from a moody young man who had come over as a clerk just seven years before: Why not create a counterforce of sepoys and seize the provincial capital of Arcot, which was under French control ... ...

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