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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... Arrival and Views of Marquis Cornwallis - He resolves to make War upon Tippoo - Treaty with the Nizam - General Medows opens the Campaign - Reduction of Dindi- gul and Paigaut - Successful Manœuvres of Tippoo - He lays waste the ...
... Arrival and Views of Marquis Cornwallis - He resolves to make War upon Tippoo - Treaty with the Nizam - General Medows opens the Campaign - Reduction of Dindi- gul and Paigaut - Successful Manœuvres of Tippoo - He lays waste the ...
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... arrived when they were to become the theatre of the most interesting events , and finally the centre and chief seat of our Indian dominion . The manner in which the factor at Calcutta was first founded has been already men tioned ...
... arrived when they were to become the theatre of the most interesting events , and finally the centre and chief seat of our Indian dominion . The manner in which the factor at Calcutta was first founded has been already men tioned ...
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... arrived , which would at least have secured their retreat . They importuned the French and Dutch , in this extremity , to make common cause against the Indian ty- rant ; but they only received from the former the insulting offer of ...
... arrived , which would at least have secured their retreat . They importuned the French and Dutch , in this extremity , to make common cause against the Indian ty- rant ; but they only received from the former the insulting offer of ...
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... arrived at an unseasonable moment , when the most brilliant prospects had just opened in the Deccan . Salabat Jung , after showing long the most extreme impatience under the thraldom in which he was held by the French , resolved at ...
... arrived at an unseasonable moment , when the most brilliant prospects had just opened in the Deccan . Salabat Jung , after showing long the most extreme impatience under the thraldom in which he was held by the French , resolved at ...
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... arrived in the middle of December at Fulta , a town at some distance below Calcutta ; where the remnant of the English had taken refuge . Letters for the nabob were forthwith sent to Monickchund , Governor of Calcutta ; but they were ...
... arrived in the middle of December at Fulta , a town at some distance below Calcutta ; where the remnant of the English had taken refuge . Letters for the nabob were forthwith sent to Monickchund , Governor of Calcutta ; but they were ...
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