Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 - 349 pages |
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... English gentlemen of highly cultivated minds , can tell who won the battle of Buxar , who perpetrated the massacre of Patna , whether Surajah Dowlah ruled in Oude or in Travancore , or whether Holkar was a Hindoo or a Mussul- Yet the ...
... English gentlemen of highly cultivated minds , can tell who won the battle of Buxar , who perpetrated the massacre of Patna , whether Surajah Dowlah ruled in Oude or in Travancore , or whether Holkar was a Hindoo or a Mussul- Yet the ...
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... English- man who takes any interest in any part of history would be curious to know how a handful of his countrymen , separated from their home by an immense ocean , subjugated , in the course of a few years , one of the greatest ...
... English- man who takes any interest in any part of history would be curious to know how a handful of his countrymen , separated from their home by an immense ocean , subjugated , in the course of a few years , one of the greatest ...
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... English inhabitants should be prisoners of war on pa- role , and that the town should remain in the hands of the French till it should be ransomed . Labourdonnais pledged his honour that only a moderate ransom should be required . But ...
... English inhabitants should be prisoners of war on pa- role , and that the town should remain in the hands of the French till it should be ransomed . Labourdonnais pledged his honour that only a moderate ransom should be required . But ...
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... English was by no means compatible . He declared that Labourdon- nais had gone beyond his powers ; that conquests made by the French arms on the continent of India were at the disposal of the governor of Pondicherry alone ; and that ...
... English was by no means compatible . He declared that Labourdon- nais had gone beyond his powers ; that conquests made by the French arms on the continent of India were at the disposal of the governor of Pondicherry alone ; and that ...
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... English and French Crowns ; but there arose between the English and French Companies trading to the East a war most eventful and important , a war in which the prize was nothing less than the magnificent inheritance of the house of ...
... English and French Crowns ; but there arose between the English and French Companies trading to the East a war most eventful and important , a war in which the prize was nothing less than the magnificent inheritance of the house of ...
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