The History of India, from the Earliest Period to the Close of Lord Dalhousie's Administration, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1867 - India |
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... English camp ; descrip- tion of it Battle of Arikera won by Lord Cornwallis .... He is obliged to close the campaign , and retire for want of provisions .... .... 1790 Progress of the Mahratta contingent 1791 It reaches the English camp ...
... English camp ; descrip- tion of it Battle of Arikera won by Lord Cornwallis .... He is obliged to close the campaign , and retire for want of provisions .... .... 1790 Progress of the Mahratta contingent 1791 It reaches the English camp ...
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... English , under the treaty of 1790 54 Sir John Shore refuses all aid 54 1795 Nizam's European force under Raymond 55 The Mahrattas attack the Nizam at Kurdla , and totally defeat him .... .... He is obliged to sign a disgraceful treaty ...
... English , under the treaty of 1790 54 Sir John Shore refuses all aid 54 1795 Nizam's European force under Raymond 55 The Mahrattas attack the Nizam at Kurdla , and totally defeat him .... .... He is obliged to sign a disgraceful treaty ...
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... English . His first act after the pacification was to seize 30,000 native Christians on the Malabar coast , and cause them to be circum- cised . The Hindoos south of the Kistna were treated with the same violence , and 2,000 brahmins ...
... English . His first act after the pacification was to seize 30,000 native Christians on the Malabar coast , and cause them to be circum- cised . The Hindoos south of the Kistna were treated with the same violence , and 2,000 brahmins ...
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... English were about to take part in the war against him . Lord Macarteny offered the Governor- Generalship , 1786 . Lord Macartney , who had taken Calcutta on his way to England , was detained there by severe illness , and was agreeably ...
... English were about to take part in the war against him . Lord Macarteny offered the Governor- Generalship , 1786 . Lord Macartney , who had taken Calcutta on his way to England , was detained there by severe illness , and was agreeably ...
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... English . Tippoo readily assented to the proposal , on condition of receiving a daughter of the Nizam in marriage ; but the Tartar blood of the son of Chin Kilich Khan boiled at the idea of a matrimonial alliance with the son of a naik ...
... English . Tippoo readily assented to the proposal , on condition of receiving a daughter of the Nizam in marriage ; but the Tartar blood of the son of Chin Kilich Khan boiled at the idea of a matrimonial alliance with the son of a naik ...
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