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Historical person
1760–1842
Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley was the governor-general who pursued rapid expansion of British power in India. He promoted subsidiary alliances, directed the war against Tipu Sultan and encouraged campaigns that reduced Maratha independence.
Anthony Morland’s An Officer’s Justice is set after the fall of Seringapatam and the death of Tipu Sultan, William Culpepper is sent into a Mysore unsettled by victory rather than pacified by it.
Series
The Life of William Culpepper follows a fictional British officer from the Revolutionary Wars in Europe into the East India Company’s campaigns in India. The sequence begins with the Flanders campaign and the Battle of Boxtel, then moves through the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, the unstable aftermath of Tipu…
All books in this series
Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
