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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... Confinement in the Black Hole - Dreadful Sufferings- Conduct of the Nabob - Armament from Madras under Clive and Wat- son - Their Landing and first Encounter with the Enemy - Calcutta surrenders - Surajah Dowlah attempts to retake it ...
... Confinement in the Black Hole - Dreadful Sufferings- Conduct of the Nabob - Armament from Madras under Clive and Wat- son - Their Landing and first Encounter with the Enemy - Calcutta surrenders - Surajah Dowlah attempts to retake it ...
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... Confinement in the Black Hole - Dreadful Sufferings- Conduct of the Nabob -- Armament from Madras under Clive and Wat- son - Their Landing and first Encounter with the Enemy - Calcutta surrenders - Surajah Dowlah attempts to retake it ...
... Confinement in the Black Hole - Dreadful Sufferings- Conduct of the Nabob -- Armament from Madras under Clive and Wat- son - Their Landing and first Encounter with the Enemy - Calcutta surrenders - Surajah Dowlah attempts to retake it ...
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... confinement . They pitched upon a chamber employed as the common dungeon of the garrison , called the black hole ; it consisted of a space eighteen feet square , with only two small windows barred with iron , opening into the close ...
... confinement . They pitched upon a chamber employed as the common dungeon of the garrison , called the black hole ; it consisted of a space eighteen feet square , with only two small windows barred with iron , opening into the close ...
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CONFINEMENT IN THE BLACK HOLE . 19 The lives of 146 men were nothing in comparison to disturbing for a moment the slumbers of a tyrant . Mr. Holwell has described in detail the horrors of that fatal night , which are scarcely paralleled ...
CONFINEMENT IN THE BLACK HOLE . 19 The lives of 146 men were nothing in comparison to disturbing for a moment the slumbers of a tyrant . Mr. Holwell has described in detail the horrors of that fatal night , which are scarcely paralleled ...
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... confinement ; to which , however , these eruptions were supposed to afford relief . The other sur- vivors were ... confine in it . The circumstance which rendered it fatal was simply the enormous number thrust into an apartment wholly ...
... confinement ; to which , however , these eruptions were supposed to afford relief . The other sur- vivors were ... confine in it . The circumstance which rendered it fatal was simply the enormous number thrust into an apartment wholly ...
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alliance allies appeared army arrived artillery attack attempt Aurengzebe Bangalore battle Bengal Berar body Bombay Bramin British Calcutta camp capital carried cavalry character chief Clive coast Colonel command completely conduct conquest considerable considered corps court detachment districts dominions Doorga effect employed endeavoured enemy English entirely European extent extreme favourable formed formidable fortress French garrison governor-general Guzerat Hastings Hindoo Hindostan Holkar honour hostile Hyder immediately India infantry Jaffier lacks of rupees length Lord Cornwallis Madras Mahratta Malwa Marquis Meer ment military Mogul Mogul empire Mysore Mysorean nabob native negotiation nizam object obliged obtained officers opened Patna peishwa persons Pindaree Pindaree war Poonah possession present prince proceeded provinces Ragoba rajah Rajpoot rank reached received reduced rendered resident retreat scarcely sent sepoys Seringapatam siege soon sovereign station subahdar subsidiary force success sultan territory tion Tippoo treaty troops Vishnu Wellesley whole