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... Pondicherry 1744. War breaks out between English and French 1746. La Bourdonnais attacks and takes Madras The French first prove the value of European discipline against numbers • • 1748. Major Lawrence attacks the French in Pondicherry ...
... Pondicherry 1744. War breaks out between English and French 1746. La Bourdonnais attacks and takes Madras The French first prove the value of European discipline against numbers • • 1748. Major Lawrence attacks the French in Pondicherry ...
Page xi
... Pondicherry 1761. Surrender at discretion to Colonel Coote . Kasim Ali is made Soobadar of Bengal in the place of Meer Jaffier 1763. Jaffier is restored 1765. Clive returns to Bengal . Finds extreme disorder Political measures • • 1766 ...
... Pondicherry 1761. Surrender at discretion to Colonel Coote . Kasim Ali is made Soobadar of Bengal in the place of Meer Jaffier 1763. Jaffier is restored 1765. Clive returns to Bengal . Finds extreme disorder Political measures • • 1766 ...
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... Pondicherry , on the coast , about eighty or ninety miles south - west of Madras . To pre- side over this establishment , M. Dupleix , an experienced servant of the French Company , had been summoned from Bengal ( where the French had ...
... Pondicherry , on the coast , about eighty or ninety miles south - west of Madras . To pre- side over this establishment , M. Dupleix , an experienced servant of the French Company , had been summoned from Bengal ( where the French had ...
Page 54
... Pondicherry , delivered a letter to the governor , to express the indignation of the Nabob of Arcot at the French attack of Madras . M. Dupleix , Governor - General of the French East India Company - to use the words of Voltaire - had ...
... Pondicherry , delivered a letter to the governor , to express the indignation of the Nabob of Arcot at the French attack of Madras . M. Dupleix , Governor - General of the French East India Company - to use the words of Voltaire - had ...
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... Pondicherry . Under the pretence of doing honour to them , M. Dupleix exposed his prison- ers to the insolent gaze of fifty thousand native spec- tators . Some , however , of the English had escaped out of Madras by night , and in ...
... Pondicherry . Under the pretence of doing honour to them , M. Dupleix exposed his prison- ers to the insolent gaze of fifty thousand native spec- tators . Some , however , of the English had escaped out of Madras by night , and in ...
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