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Search - The Black Hole Of Calcutta: A Reconstruction (Common Reader Editions)
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The Black Hole Of Calcutta A Reconstruction - Common Reader Editions Author: A bare, low-ceilinged dungeon with two barred air-holes, the cell known as the Black Hole prison, in the British East India Company’s Fort William, was intended to hold at most a couple of prisoners. But on the terrible night of June 20, 1756, at the end of a four-day battle of astonishing ferocity which saw a vast Indian horde overwhelm t... more »
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Matt B. (BuffaloSavage) reviewed The Black Hole Of Calcutta: A Reconstruction (Common Reader Editions) on + 73 more book reviews
In 1756 the Nabob captured Calcutta, and imprisoned 146 Britons in a 14- by 18-foot room. Only 23 people survived the 10-hour ordeal. The ultimate in the genre of "foreigners in trouble."
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