The Calcutta Review, Volumes 134-435University of Calcutta, 1912 |
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Page 8
... Company in the year 1757 , and and was present at the taking of Candia by their troops . Five years afterwards he returned to Holland and came out again to India in the year 1763 , and served under the Nizam of the Deccan . In the year ...
... Company in the year 1757 , and and was present at the taking of Candia by their troops . Five years afterwards he returned to Holland and came out again to India in the year 1763 , and served under the Nizam of the Deccan . In the year ...
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... Company's funds . After his surrender , he retired to Chinsurah , then in the possession of his father's countrymen , and here he buried his son , a lad of some four summers . A flat grass - embedded stone in the old portion of the ...
... Company's funds . After his surrender , he retired to Chinsurah , then in the possession of his father's countrymen , and here he buried his son , a lad of some four summers . A flat grass - embedded stone in the old portion of the ...
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... Company duelling appears to have been a pastime , quite as fashionable with the " nababs " of Madras and Calcutta as with the blades of London and Paris . Carey in his " Good Old Days tells us how a Major Brown challenged to single ...
... Company duelling appears to have been a pastime , quite as fashionable with the " nababs " of Madras and Calcutta as with the blades of London and Paris . Carey in his " Good Old Days tells us how a Major Brown challenged to single ...
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... Company . " Barwell replied with heat Whoever says I have done any- thing inconsistent with my oath to the Company is a rascal and a scoundrel . " Clavering , incensed at the insult , put his hand to his sword and Barwell bowed and ...
... Company . " Barwell replied with heat Whoever says I have done any- thing inconsistent with my oath to the Company is a rascal and a scoundrel . " Clavering , incensed at the insult , put his hand to his sword and Barwell bowed and ...
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... the Baraset Military College , where young men , fresh from English schools , were prepared for cornetships in in the the Company's army . Mischief and rowdyism were the order of the day at DUELLING DAYS IN OLD CALCUTTA . 29.
... the Baraset Military College , where young men , fresh from English schools , were prepared for cornetships in in the the Company's army . Mischief and rowdyism were the order of the day at DUELLING DAYS IN OLD CALCUTTA . 29.
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