Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes. 4Tauchnitz, 1850 - 349 pagina's |
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Pagina 8
... French colours were displayed on Fort St. George ; and the contents of the Company's warehouses were seized as prize of war by the conquerors . It was stipulated by the capitulation that the English inhabitants should be prisoners of ...
... French colours were displayed on Fort St. George ; and the contents of the Company's warehouses were seized as prize of war by the conquerors . It was stipulated by the capitulation that the English inhabitants should be prisoners of ...
Pagina 9
... French arms on the continent of India were at the disposal of the governor of Pondicherry alone ; and that Madras should be rased to the ground . Labourdonnais was compelled to yield . The anger which the breach of the capitulation ...
... French arms on the continent of India were at the disposal of the governor of Pondicherry alone ; and that Madras should be rased to the ground . Labourdonnais was compelled to yield . The anger which the breach of the capitulation ...
Pagina 10
... French Crowns ; but there arose between the English and French Companies trading to the East a war most eventful and important , a war in which the prize was nothing less than the magnificent inheritance of the house of Tamerlane . The ...
... French Crowns ; but there arose between the English and French Companies trading to the East a war most eventful and important , a war in which the prize was nothing less than the magnificent inheritance of the house of Tamerlane . The ...
Pagina 17
... French soldiers , and two thousand sepoys , dis- ciplined after the European fashion , to the assistance of his confederates . A battle was fought . The French distinguished themselves greatly . Anaverdy Khan was defeated and slain ...
... French soldiers , and two thousand sepoys , dis- ciplined after the European fashion , to the assistance of his confederates . A battle was fought . The French distinguished themselves greatly . Anaverdy Khan was defeated and slain ...
Pagina 18
... French governor . It was rumoured that he had received two hundred thousand pounds sterling in money , besides many valuable jewels . In fact , there could scarcely be any limit to his gains . He now ruled thirty millions of people with ...
... French governor . It was rumoured that he had received two hundred thousand pounds sterling in money , besides many valuable jewels . In fact , there could scarcely be any limit to his gains . He now ruled thirty millions of people with ...
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