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Page 484
... Dupleix , governor of Pondicherry . Dupleix , moreover , had already begun to revolve gigantic schemes , with which the restoration of Madras to the English was by no means compatible . He declared that Labourdonnais had gone beyond his ...
... Dupleix , governor of Pondicherry . Dupleix , moreover , had already begun to revolve gigantic schemes , with which the restoration of Madras to the English was by no means compatible . He declared that Labourdonnais had gone beyond his ...
Page 502
... Dupleix had been superseded , and had returned with the wreck of his immense fortune to Europe , where calumny and chicanery soon hunted him to his grave . But many signs indicated that a war between France and Great Britain was at hand ...
... Dupleix had been superseded , and had returned with the wreck of his immense fortune to Europe , where calumny and chicanery soon hunted him to his grave . But many signs indicated that a war between France and Great Britain was at hand ...
Page 548
... His dexterity and resolution realised , in the course of a few months , more than all the gorgeous visions which had floated before the imagina- tion of Dupleix . Such an extent of cultivated territory 548 .1774 Macaulay's Essays.
... His dexterity and resolution realised , in the course of a few months , more than all the gorgeous visions which had floated before the imagina- tion of Dupleix . Such an extent of cultivated territory 548 .1774 Macaulay's Essays.
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RANKES HISTORY OF THE POPES | 31 |
INDEX | 38 |
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