The History of the British Empire in India, Том 2John Murray, 1835 |
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... . , and undertook to contribute from henceforth to the service of the state an annual sum of two hundred thousand pounds . A like fortune attended their application in 1744 , for a further extension of their 4 [ 1730 . BRITISH INDIA .
... . , and undertook to contribute from henceforth to the service of the state an annual sum of two hundred thousand pounds . A like fortune attended their application in 1744 , for a further extension of their 4 [ 1730 . BRITISH INDIA .
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... thousand troops , in- cluding seven hundred and twenty - eight negroes , and above four hundred sick . The ships were almost all leaky and unsound ; they were miser- ably armed , and still more miserably equipped , while the crews ...
... thousand troops , in- cluding seven hundred and twenty - eight negroes , and above four hundred sick . The ships were almost all leaky and unsound ; they were miser- ably armed , and still more miserably equipped , while the crews ...
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... corps arrived within cannon shot of the town . The re- mainder of the troops , consisting of one thousand or eleven hundred Europeans , four hundred dis- ciplined natives , and as many negroes from Ma- dagascar 10 [ 1746 . BRITISH INDIA .
... corps arrived within cannon shot of the town . The re- mainder of the troops , consisting of one thousand or eleven hundred Europeans , four hundred dis- ciplined natives , and as many negroes from Ma- dagascar 10 [ 1746 . BRITISH INDIA .
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... thousand souls , ) Madras was garrisoned by something less than four hundred men ; its fortifications , too , were of the most con- temptible order ; the White Town alone , dignified by the title of Fort St. George , being begirt by a ...
... thousand souls , ) Madras was garrisoned by something less than four hundred men ; its fortifications , too , were of the most con- temptible order ; the White Town alone , dignified by the title of Fort St. George , being begirt by a ...
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... thousand men , and sending it for- ward under the orders of his son , closely invested the place . Upwards of a century had elapsed since any attempt was made by the European settlers in India to meet the numerous but undisciplined ca ...
... thousand men , and sending it for- ward under the orders of his son , closely invested the place . Upwards of a century had elapsed since any attempt was made by the European settlers in India to meet the numerous but undisciplined ca ...
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affairs Arcot army arrived attack Bahar battle began Bengal Bombay British Bussy Calcutta Calliaud camp Captain Carnatic cavalry chief Chundah Saheb Circars Clive coast Colonel command Company Company's compelled conduct consequence corps council Court of Directors Cuddalore Deccan detachment Dowla Dupleix effect Emperor enemy enemy's English favour fleet force Fort St French garrison Gingee governor Hastings honour hundred Europeans hundred sepoys Hyder India Khan lacs Lally Lord Macartney Madras Mahomed Mahrattas Mangalore Meer Causim Meer Jaffier ment miles Mohamed Ally Moorshedabad Mysore Mysoreans Nabob native Nevertheless Nizam Nizam Ally Nizam-ul-Mulk Northern Circars officers Omichund Orissa Patna Pondicherry possession Presidency prince proceedings province Ragonaut Rajah reached received reduced refused retreat returned revenues Rohilla rupees Salabat-jing scarcely sent sepoys Shah Alum siege Sir Eyre Coote soon Soubahdar squadron Suraja Dowla Tanjore thousand tion Tippoo took treaty Trichinopoly troops Velore Wandewash
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Страница 281 - I do not trust to Mr. Francis's promises of candour, convinced that he is incapable of it. I judge of his public conduct by his private, which I have found to be void of truth and honour.
Страница 324 - The defeat of many Bailies and Braith•waites will not destroy them. I can ruin their resources by land, but I cannot dry up the sea ; and I must be first weary of a war in which I • can gain nothing by fighting.
Страница 246 - The nazims exacted what they could from the zemindars and great farmers of the revenue, whom they left at liberty to plunder all below, reserving to themselves the prerogative of plundering them in their turn when they were supposed — to have enriched themselves with the spoils of the country.
Страница 82 - It was the hottest season of the year, and the night uncommonly sultry even at this season. The excessive pressure of their bodies against one another, and the intolerable heat which prevailed as soon as the door was shut, convinced the prisoners that it was impossible to live through the night in this horrible confinement, and violent attempts were immediately made to force the door, but without effect, for it opened inwards, on which many began to give loose to rage.
Страница 238 - The principal of these were : — 1st. That the court of directors should in future, instead of being chosen annually, be elected for four years ; six members annually, but none to hold their seats for longer than four years ; 2nd. That the qualification stock should be 1000/.
Страница 64 - which," says Colonel Wilks, " not only afforded the requisite pecuniary resources, but furnished the convenient means of receiving reinforcements of men and military stores from Pondicherry and Mauritius; and thus enabled Bussy to extend his political views to the indirect or absolute empire of the Deccan and the south.
Страница 182 - India merchants ; that of the whole one half was soon extorted from him, though part of the payments to the Company was still undischarged, and though the Company was sinking under the burden of the war, and obliged to borrow great sums of money of their servants at eight per cent. interest, and even with...
Страница 83 - Jemadar, who bore some marks of humanity in his countenance, promising to give him a thousand Rupees in the morning if he would separate the prisoners into two chambers ; the old man went to try, but returning in a few minutes, said it was impossible, when Mr. Holwell offered him a larger sum, on which he retired once more and returned with the fatal sentence, that no relief could be expected, because " the Nabob was asleep, and no one dared to wake him.
Страница 247 - to stand forth as Diwan and by the agency of the Company's servants to take upon themselves the entire care and management of the revenues."!
Страница 111 - The negotiations occupied six days, when conditions were agreed to — that the garrison should march out with the honours of war, and that all the ammunition, stores, &c., in the castle be delivered up without injury to the besieging army.