The History of the British Empire in India, Volume 1Wm. H. Allen, 1859 - 655 pages |
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... surrenders . 1750. - Nazir Jung quarrels with the English , and in a battle with the French is mur- dered by some of his ... surrender to Colonel Coote . Clive returns to England . Mr. Vansittart governor of Fort William . Meer Jaffier ...
... surrenders . 1750. - Nazir Jung quarrels with the English , and in a battle with the French is mur- dered by some of his ... surrender to Colonel Coote . Clive returns to England . Mr. Vansittart governor of Fort William . Meer Jaffier ...
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... surrender . Appa Sahib convicted of treachery and dethroned . Mundela taken by General Marshall . Chanda falls to Colonel Adams , and Malligaum to Colonel MacDowell . Peishwa surrenders to Sir John Malcolm , and is dethroned , but ...
... surrender . Appa Sahib convicted of treachery and dethroned . Mundela taken by General Marshall . Chanda falls to Colonel Adams , and Malligaum to Colonel MacDowell . Peishwa surrenders to Sir John Malcolm , and is dethroned , but ...
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... surrendered advantage , while the men who , without fight- himself entirely to pleasure . ing , had acquired wealth at ... surrender himself to that prince . Promises of liberal treatment were held out to him , confirmed , it is stated ...
... surrendered advantage , while the men who , without fight- himself entirely to pleasure . ing , had acquired wealth at ... surrender himself to that prince . Promises of liberal treatment were held out to him , confirmed , it is stated ...
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... surrender of the fort . Honourable den introduction to the highest paradise . By terms for the garrison were offered , and a this belief the enthusiasm of the enemy's large sum of money for Clive ; while , that no troops was wrought up ...
... surrender of the fort . Honourable den introduction to the highest paradise . By terms for the garrison were offered , and a this belief the enthusiasm of the enemy's large sum of money for Clive ; while , that no troops was wrought up ...
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... surrender , although he agreed to take an newed , both with cannon and musketry . This oath of allegiance to Mahomet Ali . The was again discontinued . A formal demand of great pagoda of Conjeveram was the next leave to bury the dead ...
... surrender , although he agreed to take an newed , both with cannon and musketry . This oath of allegiance to Mahomet Ali . The was again discontinued . A formal demand of great pagoda of Conjeveram was the next leave to bury the dead ...
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afforded allies appeared appointed Arcot army arrived artillery attack attempt authority batteries Bengal Berar body British force British government Calcutta camp Captain carried cavalry chief claims Clive Colonel command commenced Company Company's conduct Coote council Court of Directors declared defence despatched detachment dominions Dupleix duty East-India effect enemy enemy's engaged English European favour fire followed French garrison governor governor-general guns Hastings Holkar honour hostile hundred Hyder Hyder Ali India infantry Khan lacs Lally letter Lord Cornwallis Lord Lake Madras Mahomet Mahratta Major Meer Cossim Meer Jaffier ment military minister Mysore nabob native negotiation nizam Nuncomar object officers Omichund orders Oude party peace peishwa person plunder Pondicherry Poona possession prince prisoners proceeded proposed rajah received regard rendered rupees Scindia sepoys Seringapatam servants Sir Eyre Coote Soubahdar success surrender territories thousand tion Tippoo Sultan took treaty Trichinopoly troops vakeels vizier Wellesley
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Page 276 - Hindoo codes of law and religion, and with the political and commercial interests and relations of Great Britain in Asia. They should be regularly instructed in the principles and system which constitute the foundation of that wise code of regulations and laws enacted by the Governor-general in Council for the purpose of securing to the people of this empire the benefit of the ancient and accustomed laws of the country, administered in the spirit of the British constitution. They should be well informed...
Page 44 - ... a single sloop, with fifteen brave men on board, might, in spite of all the efforts of the enemy, have come up, and, anchoring under the Fort, have carried away all who suffered in the Dungeon.
Page 373 - Seven redoubts, and many batteries, mounted with heavy cannon, occupied the most commanding grounds within the lines. The fort of Cornelis was in the centre, and the whole of the works were defended by a numerous and wellorganized artillery. The season was too far advanced, the heat too violent, and our numbers insufficient, to admit of regular approaches.
Page 286 - April, 1808." weakened his influence in the northern parts of CHAP. XVI II India. In states constituted like those of the Mahratta confederacy, the authority of the prince is always endangered by absence or inactivity ; and in the case of Scindia, the causes of decline previously at work had been powerfully aided by the success of Holkar. The result was, in the words of the governor-general, " to found an independent French state on the most vulnerable part of the Company's frontier."* Nor was it...