How to attempt the 'how successful' questions of history?

[bakhita]

okay here is a question from pastpapers:
(c) How successful were the British attempts to take control of lands in the sub-continent
between 1750 and 1856?

I know that the answer has to hover over the annexation of lands by British, battles fought by British and the successes of Tipu Sultan, Ranjit Singh and local Nawabs.
But I have no idea how to arrange the successes and failures, should I go on as the events happened or mention the successes first and then failures? How should I solve the question in order to achieve the analytical and specific approach that the examiners now want in (c) part especially in these types of questions which involve successes and failures.

 

[M.Mahad]

I have been asking the same question and my exams are so near!
Btw,the arrangement depends on the question, e.g if it says how successful was Indian resistance,...then Indian successes first,if it says how successful we're the British...then the British successes first.