Warren HastingsChautauqua Press, 1886 - 183 pages |
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Page 208
... British flag was to be scarcely able to protect the British Channel . Great as were the faults of Hastings , it was happy for our country that at that conjuncture , the most terrible through which she has ever passed , he was the ruler ...
... British flag was to be scarcely able to protect the British Channel . Great as were the faults of Hastings , it was happy for our country that at that conjuncture , the most terrible through which she has ever passed , he was the ruler ...
Page 221
... British merchants and public functionaries made haste to crowd themselves behind the cannon of Fort St. George . There were the means , indeed , of assembling an army which might have defended the presi- dency , and even driven the ...
... British merchants and public functionaries made haste to crowd themselves behind the cannon of Fort St. George . There were the means , indeed , of assembling an army which might have defended the presi- dency , and even driven the ...
Page 237
... British resident to a British soldier . " Sir , the Nabob having determined to in- flict corporal punishment upon the prisoners under your guard , this is to desire that his officers , when they shall come , may have free access to the ...
... British resident to a British soldier . " Sir , the Nabob having determined to in- flict corporal punishment upon the prisoners under your guard , this is to desire that his officers , when they shall come , may have free access to the ...
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