Warren HastingsLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 - 106 pages |
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Page 18
... chief named Schitab Roy had been intrusted with the government of Bahar . His valour and his attachment to the English had more than once been signally proved . On that memorable day on which the people of Patna saw from their walls the ...
... chief named Schitab Roy had been intrusted with the government of Bahar . His valour and his attachment to the English had more than once been signally proved . On that memorable day on which the people of Patna saw from their walls the ...
Page 23
... chiefs , when united by common peril , could bring eighty thousand men into the field . Sujah Dowlah had himself seen them fight , and wisely shrank from a conflict with them . There was in India one army , and only one against which ...
... chiefs , when united by common peril , could bring eighty thousand men into the field . Sujah Dowlah had himself seen them fight , and wisely shrank from a conflict with them . There was in India one army , and only one against which ...
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... chiefs had fallen , fighting bravely at the head of their troops , that the Rohilla ranks gave way . Then the Nabob Vizier and his rabble made their appearance , and hastened to plunder the camp of the valiant enemies , whom they had ...
... chiefs had fallen , fighting bravely at the head of their troops , that the Rohilla ranks gave way . Then the Nabob Vizier and his rabble made their appearance , and hastened to plunder the camp of the valiant enemies , whom they had ...
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... chief of that presi- dency should be styled Governor - General ; that he should be assisted by four Councillors ; and that a supreme court of judica- ture , consisting of a chief justice and three inferior judges , should be established ...
... chief of that presi- dency should be styled Governor - General ; that he should be assisted by four Councillors ; and that a supreme court of judica- ture , consisting of a chief justice and three inferior judges , should be established ...
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... chief clerk of the war - office . He repeatedly mentioned that he had himself , in 1770 , heard speeches of Lord Chatham ; and some of these speeches were actually printed from his notes . He resigned his clerkship at the war - office ...
... chief clerk of the war - office . He repeatedly mentioned that he had himself , in 1770 , heard speeches of Lord Chatham ; and some of these speeches were actually printed from his notes . He resigned his clerkship at the war - office ...
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