The History of British India, المجلد 2Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817 - 777 من الصفحات |
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... 476 CHAPTER VI . Financial Difficulties - Campaign of General Goddard on the Bombay Side of the Mahratta Country - Attack on the Bengal Side - Peace with Scindia - Supreme Court of Judicature - Efforts of the Supreme Court to vi CONTENTS .
... 476 CHAPTER VI . Financial Difficulties - Campaign of General Goddard on the Bombay Side of the Mahratta Country - Attack on the Bengal Side - Peace with Scindia - Supreme Court of Judicature - Efforts of the Supreme Court to vi CONTENTS .
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... attack the open quarter of the town at break of day . But , as the wind rose , and the surf was high , they were compelled to put back . † Dupleix was fertile in expedients , and indefatigable in their application . He sent a detachment ...
... attack the open quarter of the town at break of day . But , as the wind rose , and the surf was high , they were compelled to put back . † Dupleix was fertile in expedients , and indefatigable in their application . He sent a detachment ...
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... attack upon Cuddalore . Major Laurence , by a well executed feint , allowed the enemy at midnight to approach the very walls , and even to apply their scaling ladders , under an idea that the garrison was withdrawn , when a sudden ...
... attack upon Cuddalore . Major Laurence , by a well executed feint , allowed the enemy at midnight to approach the very walls , and even to apply their scaling ladders , under an idea that the garrison was withdrawn , when a sudden ...
الصفحة 49
James Mill. 1748 . attack Pondi- stores at Pondicherry and Madras ; knowing well , as soon as the superior force CHAP . I. of the English should appear , that the Nabob would change sides , and the French settlements , both by sea and ...
James Mill. 1748 . attack Pondi- stores at Pondicherry and Madras ; knowing well , as soon as the superior force CHAP . I. of the English should appear , that the Nabob would change sides , and the French settlements , both by sea and ...
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... attack . He pro- ceeded with a platoon of Europeans and 700 Sepoys ; but rashly allowing him- self , at the head of the platoon , to be separated from the Sepoys , he narrowly escaped with his life ; and the platoon was almost wholly ...
... attack . He pro- ceeded with a platoon of Europeans and 700 Sepoys ; but rashly allowing him- self , at the head of the platoon , to be separated from the Sepoys , he narrowly escaped with his life ; and the platoon was almost wholly ...
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Adaulut affairs appeared appointed Arcot army arrived attack authority Begums Benares Bengal Board Bombay Book Bussy Calcutta Carnatic CHAP chief Circars Clive Colonel command conduct Court of Directors declared defence detachment dominions Dowla Dupleix East India Company Emperor endeavoured enemy engaged English Europeans expedition favour fleet force Fort St French Fyzoolla Khan garrison Governor-General Governor-General and Council Hastings House of Commons Hyder Hyder Ali immediately important intelligence jaghires Jung justice Labourdonnais Lally letter Lord Lord Macartney Madras Mahomed Mahrattas Meer Causim ment military minister Nabob native Negapatnam negotiation Nizam Nuncomar obtained officers orders Orme Oude party Patna Peshwa Polygars Pondicherry Poonah possession present President and Council Prince proceedings Proprietors province Ragoba Rajah received rendered Report resolution revenue Rohillas says Select Committee sent Sepoys ships Subahdar supra Supreme Council Tanjore territory tion trade transactions treaty Trichinopoly troops Vizir whole Zemindars
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الصفحة 304 - That all Acquisitions made under the Influence of a Military Force or by Treaty with Foreign Princes do of right belong to the State.
الصفحة 196 - I could trust to the information of my eyes without stopping to ask questions), I am sure their frequency can bode no good to the Nabob's revenues, the quiet of the country, or the honour of our nation, but evidently tends to lessen each of them.
الصفحة 419 - 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.
الصفحة 420 - any measures which the Governor-General shall " recommend for the prosecution of the war in which " we are supposed to be engaged with the Mahrattas, " or for the general support of the present political " system of this Government. Neither will he him...
الصفحة 311 - It was an innovation by which the whole property of the country, and along with it the administration of justice, were placed upon a new foundation...
الصفحة 237 - Upon my arrival, I am sorry to say, I found your affairs in a condition so nearly desperate as would have alarmed any set of men whose sense of honour and duty to their employers had not been estranged by the too eager pursuit of their own immediate advantages.
الصفحة 684 - In point of ability he is beyond all question the most eminent of the chief rulers whom the Company have ever employed ; nor is there any one of them who would not have succumbed under the difficulties which, if he did not overcome, he at any rato sustained.
الصفحة 310 - 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."!
الصفحة 258 - Under the Sanction of a Soubah every encroachment that may be attempted by Foreign Powers can effectually be crushed without any apparent Interposition of our own Authority ; and all real Grievances complained of by them, can, through the same channel, be examined into and redressed. Be it therefore always remembered that there is a...
الصفحة 99 - Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Bankrupt Laws ; and i This and the two preceding motions were lost by large majorities.