The History of the British Empire in India, Svazek 1W.H. Allen, 1841 |
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appeared Arcot arms army arrived attack attempt Aurungzebe authority Bengal brahmin British force Bussy Calcutta camp Captain cavalry Chandernagore CHAP chief Chingleput Chinsura Chunda Sahib claim Clive Colonel Calliaud Colonel Coote command Company's Cossimbazar council Court of Directors Deccan Delhi demand dispatched Dupleix Dutch duty effect Emperor enemy enemy's engaged English favour field-pieces fire followed Fort St French garrison governor Holwell honour horse hundred Europeans hundred sepoys Hyder Hyder Ali India Khan lacs Lally letter Madras Mahomed Mahomet Mahometan Mahrattas Major Lawrence Meer Cossim Meer Jaffier Meerun ment military Mysore Mysorean Nabob native Nunjeraj object obtained officers Omichund orders Orme party Patna person Pondicherry possession prince prisoners proceeded promise Rajah Ram Narrain received returned rupees Salabat Jung select committee sepoys servants Shah Jehan Shooja Sooraj-oo-Dowlah Soubahdar sovereign success surrender Tanjore thousand throne tion took trade treaty Trichinopoly troops Vansittart vizier Wandewash
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Strana 192 - Durbar1 before seven, when he repeated his assurances to me, on the word of a soldier, that no harm should come to us; and indeed I believe his orders were only general. That we should for...
Strana 219 - I will kindle such a flame in your country as all the water in the Ganges shall not be able to extinguish. Farewell: remember that he promises you this, who never yet broke his word with you or with any man whatsoever.
Strana 195 - Can it gain belief, that this scene of misery proved entertainment to the brutal wretches without 1 But so it was ; and they took care to keep us supplied with water, that they might have the satisfaction of seeing us fight for it, as they phrased it, and held up lights to the bars, that they might lose no part of the inhuman diversion.
Strana 499 - We have at last arrived at that critical period which I have long foreseen ; I mean that period which renders it necessary for us to determine whether we can or shall take the whole to ourselves.
Strana 470 - In doing this, as before observed, you are to have a particular regard to the interest and entire satisfaction of the nabob, both with respect to his 'revenues, and the proper support of his government...
Strana 17 - So rich ft harvest bud been reaped by the first spoilers of the Deccan, that their example found many eager imitators. In one of these predatory visits, a prince, named Mohammed Toghluk, was so much struck with the central situation of Dowlatabad, formerly under the name of Deogur, the capital of a powerful Hindoo state, that he resolved upon making it, instead of Delhi, the seat of the Mahometan empire in India. He returned to Delhi for a short period, but recurring to his former resolution, he...
Strana 192 - ... a single sloop, with fifteen brave men on board, might, in spite of all the efforts of the enemy, have come up, and, anchoring under the Fort, have carried away all who suffered in the Dungeon.
Strana 249 - This city is as extensive, populous, and rich as the city of London, with this difference, that there are individuals in the first possessing infinitely greater property than in the last city.
Strana 374 - Clive with their own doubts, and to alarm him by representations of the personal danger which he incurred. His reply is said to have been, "A public man may occasionally be called upon to act with a halter round his neck.
Strana 377 - European nation not in a state of declared war, he sent a hasty messenger across the river with a note to Clive, saying, " that if he had the order of council he could attack the Dutch, with a fair prospect of destroying them.