Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 4Tauchnitz, 1850 - 349 pagina's |
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Pagina 14
... Calcutta against the horsemen of Berar ; and the name of the Mahratta ditch still preserves the memory of the danger . Wherever the viceroys of the Mogul retained authority they became sovereigns . They might still acknowledge in words ...
... Calcutta against the horsemen of Berar ; and the name of the Mahratta ditch still preserves the memory of the danger . Wherever the viceroys of the Mogul retained authority they became sovereigns . They might still acknowledge in words ...
Pagina 34
... Calcutta . For the ground on which the settlement stood , the English , like other great landholders , paid rent to the government ; and they were , like other great landholders , permitted to exercise a certain jurisdiction within ...
... Calcutta . For the ground on which the settlement stood , the English , like other great landholders , paid rent to the government ; and they were , like other great landholders , permitted to exercise a certain jurisdiction within ...
Pagina 35
... Calcutta , had they even been greater than he ima- gined , would not compensate him for what he must lose , if the European trade , of which Bengal was a chief seat , should be driven by his violence to some other quarter . Pretexts for ...
... Calcutta , had they even been greater than he ima- gined , would not compensate him for what he must lose , if the European trade , of which Bengal was a chief seat , should be driven by his violence to some other quarter . Pretexts for ...
Pagina 38
... Calcutta should thenceforward be called Alinagore , that is to say , the Port of God . In August the news of the fall of Calcutta reached Madras , and excited the fiercest and bitterest resentment . The cry of the whole settlement was ...
... Calcutta should thenceforward be called Alinagore , that is to say , the Port of God . In August the news of the fall of Calcutta reached Madras , and excited the fiercest and bitterest resentment . The cry of the whole settlement was ...
Pagina 39
... Calcutta . Clive had commenced operations with his usual vigour . He took Budgebudge , routed the garrison of Fort William , recovered Calcutta , stormed and sacked Hoogley . The Nabob , already disposed to make some concessions to the ...
... Calcutta . Clive had commenced operations with his usual vigour . He took Budgebudge , routed the garrison of Fort William , recovered Calcutta , stormed and sacked Hoogley . The Nabob , already disposed to make some concessions to the ...
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