Historical and Descriptive Account of British India from the Most Remote Period to the Present Time ...Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1855 - Great Britain |
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... Hyder - His Parentage - His early Destitution - Begins to distinguish himself - Mode in which he forms a Body of Adherents -Commands at Dindigul - His power augmented - Violence of Nun- jeraj , who is reduced to Distress - Hyder ...
... Hyder - His Parentage - His early Destitution - Begins to distinguish himself - Mode in which he forms a Body of Adherents -Commands at Dindigul - His power augmented - Violence of Nun- jeraj , who is reduced to Distress - Hyder ...
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Hyder - He overruns the Carnatic - Again threatens Madras - Con clusion of Peace - Another great Inroad of the Mahrattas - Hyder con cludes a Treaty with them , and makes further Conquests - His Resent ment against the English - Weak ...
Hyder - He overruns the Carnatic - Again threatens Madras - Con clusion of Peace - Another great Inroad of the Mahrattas - Hyder con cludes a Treaty with them , and makes further Conquests - His Resent ment against the English - Weak ...
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... Hyder against the Eng- lish - They invade the Carnatic - Threaten Madras - Battle of Trino- malee - Nizam quits the Alliance - Invasion of Mysore - Successes of Hyder - He overruns the Carnatic - Again threatens Madras - Con- clusion of ...
... Hyder against the Eng- lish - They invade the Carnatic - Threaten Madras - Battle of Trino- malee - Nizam quits the Alliance - Invasion of Mysore - Successes of Hyder - He overruns the Carnatic - Again threatens Madras - Con- clusion of ...
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... Hyder with a degree of minute- ness which it is unnecessary for us to follow . His family appears to have sprung from the northern territory of the Punjaub ; they were of low station , and so poor as in some instances to subsist upon ...
... Hyder with a degree of minute- ness which it is unnecessary for us to follow . His family appears to have sprung from the northern territory of the Punjaub ; they were of low station , and so poor as in some instances to subsist upon ...
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... Hyder , accordingly , had his fortune entirely to make ; and for some time he gave but slender promise of achieving any high advancement . He did not even learn to read or write ; and , on arriving at manhood , he spent his whole time ...
... Hyder , accordingly , had his fortune entirely to make ; and for some time he gave but slender promise of achieving any high advancement . He did not even learn to read or write ; and , on arriving at manhood , he spent his whole time ...
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