| John Malcolm - 1836 - 428 sider
...note was addressed, received it when playing at cards. Without quitting the table, he wrote an answer in pencil, " Dear Forde, fight them immediately. I will send you the Order of Council tomorrow." Clive appears to have been upon the best footing with several of the principal inhabitants of Chinsura,... | |
| Edward Thornton - 1841 - 608 sider
...he received the communication, and without quitting the table, he wrote the following answer with a pencil : — " Dear Forde, " Fight them immediately; I will send you the order of council to-morrow." The instruction was followed, and with what success has been shewn in the text. CHAP. vi. relations... | |
| 1841 - 600 sider
...he received the communication, and without quitting the table, he wrote the following answer with a pencil : — " ' Dear Forde, " ' Fight them immediately...; I will send you the order of council tomorrow.' " The instruction was followed, and with what success has been shown in the text." That success was... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1843 - 570 sider
...was addressed, received it while playing at cards. Without quitting the table, he wrote this answer in pencil : "Dear Forde, — Fight them immediately. I will send you the Order of Council to-morrow." Forde struck the blow, and on the 24th, reached the plains of Bcdarra, where he encountered the Dutch... | |
| James George Smith Neill - 1843 - 666 sider
...order in council, he could attack the Dutch with advantage." Clive wrote a reply in pencil as follows : "Dear Forde, fight them immediately. I will send you the order of council to-morrow." A few days after the victory of Bedarra, Colonel Calliaud arrived at Calcutta from Madras, with 200... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1844 - 1184 sider
...note reached him, took out his pencil, and, without quitting the talile, wrote on the back of it — " Dear Forde, fight them immediately. I will send you the order of council to-morrow."* Accordingly Forde fought the Dutch; and the engagement was short, bloody, and decisive. It took place... | |
| 1845 - 616 sider
...demand was addressed, received it when playing at cards. Without quitting the table he wrote an answer in pencil — " Dear Forde, fight them immediately. I will send you the Order of Council to-morrow." There is nothing greater than this in all Livy. Forde met and discomfited the Dutch, and Dutch ambition... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - 472 sider
...note reached him, took out his pencil, and, without quitting the table, wrote on the back of it — " Dear Forde, fight them immediately. I will send you the order of council to-morrow."* Accordingly, Forde fought the Dutch ; and the engagement was short, bloody, and decisive. It took place... | |
| 1848 - 618 sider
...demand was addressed, received it when playing at cards. Without quitting the table he wrote an answer in pencil — " Dear Forde, fight them immediately. I will send you the Order of Council to-morrow." There is nothing greater than this in all Livy. Forde met and discomfited the Dutch, and Dutch ambition... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 468 sider
...note reached him, took out his pencil, and, without quitting the table, wrote on the back of it — " Dear Forde, fight them immediately. I will send you the order of council to-morrow."* Accordingly, Forde fought the Dutch ; and the engagement was short, bloody, and decisive. It took place... | |
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