A Voyage to the East Indies: Began in 1750 with Observations Continued Till 1764; Including Accounts of the Mogul Government in General, the Viceroyalties of the Decan and Bengal, and Independent States; Particularily Those of Angria, the Morattoes, and Tanjoreans. Of the Religions in India, and General Reflections on the Trade of India. Of the European Settlements. The Rise of the War in India, to the Conclusion of the General Peace of Europe in 1763, Band 2author; and sold, 1766 |
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... English a neutrality for the Eaft Indies , which was imprudently rejected ; and the war was carried into these remote regions , where the Nabobs were foon made fenfible , it was their intereft to supply one party or other with their mer ...
... English a neutrality for the Eaft Indies , which was imprudently rejected ; and the war was carried into these remote regions , where the Nabobs were foon made fenfible , it was their intereft to supply one party or other with their mer ...
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... English had refused the neutrality offered by the French , the latter came to the refolution of giving a vigorous exertion to their force in India : and accordingly , on the 11th of April 1745 , the French monarch granted M. de la ...
... English had refused the neutrality offered by the French , the latter came to the refolution of giving a vigorous exertion to their force in India : and accordingly , on the 11th of April 1745 , the French monarch granted M. de la ...
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... English had greatly the advantage in weight of metal , by which the fortune of battle is now generally decided at fea : the English also failed better than the French , and were worked with greater skill . The action began at half an ...
... English had greatly the advantage in weight of metal , by which the fortune of battle is now generally decided at fea : the English also failed better than the French , and were worked with greater skill . The action began at half an ...
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... English remain prisoners of war : that the articles of capi- tulation being fettled , those of the ransom should be regulated amicably : that the garrison should be conducted to Fort St. David ; and the failors fent to Cuddalore . " As ...
... English remain prisoners of war : that the articles of capi- tulation being fettled , those of the ransom should be regulated amicably : that the garrison should be conducted to Fort St. David ; and the failors fent to Cuddalore . " As ...
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... English having taken Cape Breton . That circum- ftance caufed the French to alter their measures , with the view of exchanging one place for the other but though the English afterwards , in pur- fuance of the general treaty of peace ...
... English having taken Cape Breton . That circum- ftance caufed the French to alter their measures , with the view of exchanging one place for the other but though the English afterwards , in pur- fuance of the general treaty of peace ...
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Seite 476 - Decan ; and both parties shall renounce all demands and pretensions of satisfaction with which they might charge each other, or their Indian allies, for the depredations or pillage committed on the one side or on the other during the war.
Seite 217 - Thus, in a few hours, and without losing a single man, had "the spirited resolution of Commodore James destroyed the timorous prejudices which had for twenty years been entertained of the impracticability of reducing any of Angria's fortified harbours.
Seite iii - There are alfo among the woods and mountainous parts of the country feveral petty princes, or heads of dan.s, diftinguifhed by the name 'of Polygars.
Seite 206 - Auguft, as to return te his work. In the mean time, the ftores which they had faved from the wreck were fo near exhaufted, that they came to an allowance of two ounces of bread a man per day, and had no fait pork, except what they were determined to keep to victual their boat; water aifo fell Ihort.
Seite 444 - BY the fame fallacious fophiftry, a ftate may object to the payment of the ranfoms of fhips taken at fea, and to contributions levied in a country which is the feat of war. But it is always allowed that in fuch cafes, a part muft be facrificed to...
Seite 245 - Air, air !' was the general cry. Every insult that could be devised against the guard ; all the opprobrious names that the viceroy and his officers could be loaded with, were repeated to provoke the guard to fire upon them.
Seite 476 - Sumatra, to be restored; he engages farther, not to erect fortifications, or to keep troops in any part of the dominions of the Subah of Bengal.
Seite 243 - ... eighteen feet, in a close sultry night, in Bengal, shut up to the eastward and southward (the only quarters from whence air could reach us) by dead walls, and by a wall and door to the north, open only to the westward by two windows, strongly barred with iron, from which we could receive scarce any the least circulation of fresh air.
Seite 441 - Propositions contained in the Paper delivered on the Part of His Excellency the Governor and His Council will be Listened to and Confirmed to them upon their payment of four millions of Dollars, the Half to be Paid Immediately, the other Half to be Paid in a time to be agreed upon [and hostages and security Given for that Purpose.
Seite 446 - ... when compofed of fuch a variety and confufion of people, who differed as much in fentiments and language, as in drefs and complexion. Several hours elapfed, before the principal magiftrates could be brought to a conference ; during that interval the inhabitants were undoubtedly great fuierers.