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190 apposite language of the historian of the fall of the Moghol Empire. "Though moving in an obscure scene," writes Mr. Keene, "de Boigne was one of the great personages of the World's Drama; and much of the small amount of civil and military organisation upon which the British Empire of Hindostan was ultimately founded is due to his industry, skill, and valour."