Extract from a 19th-century biographical memoir of Lord Clive covering military operations in the Deckan and Northern Circars (1758–1765), including Colonel Forde's expedition, the siege of Masulipatam, and French–English rivalries in India. Relevant to the broader geopolitical and commercial context surrounding the 1765 Isle of Man Revestment, as Clive's Indian ventures and East India Company interests were contemporaneous with Parliamentary debates on sovereignty and colonial/commercial power.