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Transactions in India From the Commencement of the French War in Seventeen Hundred and Fifty-Six to the Conclusion of the Late Peace in
Transactions in India From the Commencement of the French War in Seventeen Hundred and Fifty-Six to the Conclusion of the Late Peace in Author:John Moir Title: Transactions in India From the Commencement of the French War in Seventeen Hundred and Fifty-Six to the Conclusion of the Late Peace in Seventeen Hundred and Eighty-Three Subtitle: Containing a History of the British Interests in Indostan During a Period of Near Thirty Years, Distinguished by ... the Administration of Governor Hastings ... more »General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1786 Original Publisher: Printed for J. Debrett Description: Signatures: [A]4 B-2I8 2K8 (2K6-8, blank?, wanting). Subjects: India Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER X. Fitnch War -- Pondicherry taken -- Affair of the Gun- toor Circar and Pejhcvjh -- Hyder My invades the Carnatic -- The Confequences of that Event -- The Prefidency and the Nabob equally unprepared -- State of the Army -- Sir HeShr Monro takes the Field -- Bailee's Situation -- Mr Difafter -- Sir Eyre Coote's jirri'val -- He beats the Emmy in four pitched Battles -- The War with the Dutch -- Expedition againft their Settlements in Sumatra -- The Fall of Negapatam on the CoromandelCoqft, and ofTrincomak in the I/land ef Ceylon. AUTHENTIC intelligence of our late waf with France was communicated to the governor- general of Bengal fo early as July 1778 ; and his thorough conviction of this great and interefting fact produced an immediate and fenfible influence on all the meafures of the fupreme council. The deftination of Count d'Eftaing's ffeet, which was then unknown, was not unnaturally fuppofed to be fome of our capital ports on the Indian fhore. Report, which for the moft part magnifies where it does not fabricate, gave weight to the conjecture. The Chevalier St. Lubin was ftill at the Durbar, and obferved to be frequent in clof...« less