Warren HastingsChautauqua Press, 1886 - 183 pages |
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Page 210
... Bengal were seized . Orders were sent to Madras that Pondicherry should instantly be occupied . Near Calcutta , works were thrown up which thought to render the approach of a hostile force impossible . A maritime estab- lishment was ...
... Bengal were seized . Orders were sent to Madras that Pondicherry should instantly be occupied . Near Calcutta , works were thrown up which thought to render the approach of a hostile force impossible . A maritime estab- lishment was ...
Page 216
... Bengal the recollection of those evil days . The members of the government were , on this subject , united as one man . Hastings had courted the judges ; he had found them use- ful instruments ; but he was not disposed to make them his ...
... Bengal the recollection of those evil days . The members of the government were , on this subject , united as one man . Hastings had courted the judges ; he had found them use- ful instruments ; but he was not disposed to make them his ...
Page 282
... Bengal obtained from the natives and transmitted to England , made a considerable impression . To these addresses we attach little or no importance . That Hastings was beloved by the people whom he governed is true ; but the eulogies of ...
... Bengal obtained from the natives and transmitted to England , made a considerable impression . To these addresses we attach little or no importance . That Hastings was beloved by the people whom he governed is true ; but the eulogies of ...
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