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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Page 7
... 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 - Treaty - Capture of Chandernagore - Plan of dethroning the Nabob ...
... 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 - Treaty - Capture of Chandernagore - Plan of dethroning the Nabob ...
Page 13
... 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 - Treaty - Capture of Chandernagore - Plan of dethroning the Nabob ...
... 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 - Treaty - Capture of Chandernagore - Plan of dethroning the Nabob ...
Page 14
... nabob was occupied by Sujah ; but on the death of that prince , his son Suffraze Khan , a weak and imprudent ruler , was dethroned , and his place usurped by Aliverdi Khan , a chief of Patan or Afghan extraction , possessed of great ...
... nabob was occupied by Sujah ; but on the death of that prince , his son Suffraze Khan , a weak and imprudent ruler , was dethroned , and his place usurped by Aliverdi Khan , a chief of Patan or Afghan extraction , possessed of great ...
Page 15
... nabob . Lastly , his very exaggerated conceptions of the wealth to be found within their factory made him seek with avidity any ground on which he could be justified in plundering its contents . The ostensible cause of complaint arose ...
... nabob . Lastly , his very exaggerated conceptions of the wealth to be found within their factory made him seek with avidity any ground on which he could be justified in plundering its contents . The ostensible cause of complaint arose ...
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... nabob marched upon Calcutta with such furious haste that a number of his men perished from strokes of the sun , or other accidents occasioned by exces- sive heat . Having left Cossimbuzar on the 9th June , 1756 , he arrived on the 16th ...
... nabob marched upon Calcutta with such furious haste that a number of his men perished from strokes of the sun , or other accidents occasioned by exces- sive heat . Having left Cossimbuzar on the 9th June , 1756 , he arrived on the 16th ...
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