They Saw it Happen: An Anthology of Eyewitness's Accounts of Events in British History, 1689-1897, Volum 3Blackwell, 1958 - 311 sider |
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Side 50
... British fort at Calcutta . Many British subjects , including the Governor , Roger Drake , fled in panic down the river Hooghly ; those who remained and fell into Suraj - ud - Daulah's power were treated in the manner described here ...
... British fort at Calcutta . Many British subjects , including the Governor , Roger Drake , fled in panic down the river Hooghly ; those who remained and fell into Suraj - ud - Daulah's power were treated in the manner described here ...
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... British Fleet , declaring to Captain Hardy that he would not be contented with capturing less than twenty sail of the Line . The wind was now from the west , but the breezes were very light , with a long , heavy swell running . The ...
... British Fleet , declaring to Captain Hardy that he would not be contented with capturing less than twenty sail of the Line . The wind was now from the west , but the breezes were very light , with a long , heavy swell running . The ...
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... British statesman . Certainly , notwithstanding his great sway in debate , we cannot recognise him as our greatest orator , for in many of the supreme requisites of oratory he was singularly deficient . But what he really was , and what ...
... British statesman . Certainly , notwithstanding his great sway in debate , we cannot recognise him as our greatest orator , for in many of the supreme requisites of oratory he was singularly deficient . But what he really was , and what ...
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THE BATTLE OF PLASSEY | 32 |
JOHN WESLEY | 40 |
THE IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS | 59 |
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