Cassell's illustrated history of India, Volume 1

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Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Company, 1883

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Contents

Of the Sepoys Siege of Trichinopoly Battles of the Golden and SugarLoaf Rocks
39
Clive the Avenger Calcutta Retaken Hooghly and Chandernagore Reduced
47
Battle of Plassy Defeat Flight and Dethronement of the Nabob of Bengal by Colonel Clive
56
Assassination of Surajah Dowlah Cootes Expedition Trichinopoly Attacked again
59
Count de Lally His Instructions Sea Battle Surrender of Fort St David Count dAches Instructions Tanjore Attacked
63
Progress of the British and French Campaign in India Siege of Madras and Capture of Conjeveram
70
SeaFight off Fort St David Affair off Wandiwash Defeat of Conflans by Colonel Forde PAGE I 3 8 13 20 23 28 36 41 49 56 59 63 70 Masulipatam ...
74
The Dutch in Bengal Battle of Wandiwash The Country Ravaged Chitapett Reduced
80
Capture of Arcot and Reduction of Pondicherry Fate of the Count de Lally Fall of the French Power in India 74
83
The CrossRoads Chandni Chowk
85
the Company
92
Meer Cossim Deposed Defeated by Major Adams Massacre of the Europeans at Patna Battles of Buxar and Korah
99
Clive Dictator in India State of the Country Discontents in the Bengal Army Reforms Continued
106
Conquest of the Philippine Isles Affairs of the Carnatic Hyder Ali
111
Sacred Pool near Trichinopoly
115
War with Hyder Ali The Chingama Pass Battle of Eroor
116
The Defence of Amboor Our Treaty with the Nizam Hyder Ali and the Zemindars of Bednore c
119
Narrow Escape of Colonel Woods Army at Mulwagul Annihilation of Nixons Detachment Hyder
125
Chingleput
126
Mohammed Ali The Company and the Ministry War with Tanjore
136
Judges Appointed in Bengal Balambangan Internal Dissension at Madras
143
Clive at Plassy
162
Dissensions at Calcutta Affairs of Oude Revolt of the Matchlockmen
166
The Scottish East India Company Its Rise Progress and Destruction
177
Extraordinary Proceedings in Bengal Duel between the GovernorGeneral and Mr Francis
186
Pondicherry Reduced again The March of Colonel Goddard
194
Exploits of Captain Popham Capture of Gwalior Siege of Bassein Battle of Doogaur Goddards
201
Group of Brahmins
211
Hyder Ali and Swartz the Missionary Invasion of the Carnatic Destruction of Colonel Baillies Troops
212
Sir E Coote Takes Command in the Carnatic Daring Act of Lieutenant Flint Hyders Ships
218
Negapatam and Trincomalee Captured Vellore Relieved Destruction of Braithwaites Troops
226
View of the Palace of Vellore
228
Capture of Bednore in Canara Sieges of Cuddalore and Mangalore Peace with France
237
Campaign of Colonel Fullarton
243
Rebellion and Massacre at Benares Rout Flight and Dethronement of Cheyte Sing
249
Sir John Shore afterwards Lord Teignmouth SeaFight with French Cruisers Mahadajee Scindia Dies Invasion of the Deccan by the Mahrattas Battle of...
310
Defeat of Gholaum Mohammed Khan Marriage of Vizier Ali The Dutch Settlements Reduced Discontent in the Army c Ead of Lord Teignmouths A...
317
Earl of Mornington in Office Intrigues between the French and Tippoo Sultan LXV Preparations for the Final War with Tippoo The Battle of Malave...
323
Character c of Tippoo Last Siege of Seringapatam and Death of the Sultan LXVII The Fight in Balasore Roads Partition of Mysore Restoration of the...
352
A New Mahratta War The Battle of Assaye Truce with Scindia
359
The Provinces of Goojerat and Cuttack Reduced Allyghur Stormed Battle of Delhi The Great Gun of Agra Battle of Laswaree
369
Conquest of Bundelcund Battle of Argaum Storming of Gawilghur and End of the
376
SeaFight off Pulo Aor The House of Holkar Monsons Disastrous Retreat
381
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385
The War with Holkar Ochterlonys Defence of Delhi Our Victories at Ferruckabad and Deeg
389
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393
The Four Fatal Assaults on Bhurtpore Ameer Khan End of the Blockade
394
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396
Cornwallis again GovernorGeneral His Death and Tomb 369 376
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402
Treaty with Scindia Pursuit of Holkar Tragic End of Sirjee Rao The Mutiny at Vellore
405
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408
The Earl of Minto GovernorGeneral Tragic Story of Lakshman the Robber Comonah Expedition Ameer Khan and other Robber Chiefs
411
283
415
Naval Affairs in the Indian Seas 1807 to 1809
417
The Mausoleum of the Emperor Houmayoun in
421
Capture of Kallinger The Irish Rajah Treaty with Runjeet Sing The Embassy to Cabul
422
The Embassies to Persia and Scinde 1809 Fighting in Travancore 417
428
Conquest of Java and its Dependencies
440
116
444
The Earl of Moira GovernorGeneral The Nepaulese War 447 LXXXVII War with the Ghoorkas Valour and Success of Ochterlony Operations of Ge...
450
LowCaste Bengal Natives
451
of Kumaon and Gurwhal
456
The Heights of Maloun Captured The Second Campaign in Nepaul under Ochterlony Its Victorious Conclusion
461
Intrigues of the Ghoorkas Cutch Subdued Opposition of the Hindoos to Taxation The Siege of Hatrass and Flight of Dyaram
470
The Pindarees and what Led to a War with Them
476
Preparations against Aseerghur Its Siege and Capture Close of the War and Its Results
531
The First Burmese War Capture of Rangoon The European Prisoners Mortality among
561
The War with Burman Attack on the Great Pagoda at Rangoon Operations in Assam Arracan c
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Page 41 - Ugolino told in the sea of everlasting ice, after he had wiped his bloody lips on the scalp of his murderer, approaches the horrors which were recounted by the few survivors of that night. They cried for mercy. They strove to burst the door. Holwell who, even in that extremity, retained some presence of mind, offered large bribes to the gaolers.
Page 206 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those...
Page 148 - The physical organization of the Bengalee is feeble even to effeminacy. He lives in a constant vapour bath. His pursuits are sedentary, his limbs delicate, his movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hardy breeds. Courage, independence, veracity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situation are equally unfavourable.
Page 31 - Caesar, or of the Old Guard of Napoleon. The sepoys came to Clive, not to complain of their scanty fare, but to propose that all the grain should be given to the Europeans, who required more nourishment than the natives of Asia. The thin gruel, they said, which was strained away from the rice, would suffice for themselves. Histoiy contains no more touching instance of military fidelity, or of the influence of a commanding mind.
Page 228 - The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal; and all was done by charity that private charity could do: but it was a people in beggary ; it was a nation which stretched out its hands for food. For months together, these creatures of sufferance, whose very excess and luxury in their most plenteous days had fallen short of the allowance of our austerest fasts, silent, patient, resigned, without sedition or disturbance, almost without complaint, perished by...
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Page 241 - Hundreds of devotees came hither every month to die ; for it was believed that a peculiarly happy fate awaited the man who should pass from the sacred city into the sacred river. Nor was superstition the only motive which allured strangers to that great metropolis. Commerce had as many pilgrims as religion. All along the shores of the venerable stream lay great fleets of vessels, ladeu with rich merchandise.
Page 183 - I do not trust to Mr. Francis's promises of candour, convinced that he is incapable of it. I judge of his public conduct by his private, which I have found to be void of truth. and honour.
Page 248 - Sir, the Nabob having determined to inflict 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 prisoners, and be permitted to do with them as they shall see proper.

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