Three Frenchmen in Bengal - The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements in 1757 by S. C. (Samuel Charles) Hill
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under pretext of collecting it they ravaged a large portion of
India.] [Footnote 3: Court, or Court officials and nobles.] [Footnote 4: Such fires are mentioned in many Indian legends. In the "Arabian Nights" we read of a demon changing himself into a flaming fire.] [Footnote 5: His age is stated by some as nineteen, by others as about twenty-five. See note, p. 66.] [Footnote 6: Amina Begum.] [Footnote 7: _Diwan_, i.e. Minister or Manager.] [Footnote 8: The English at Dacca surrendered to the Nawab of that place, and were afterwards released. Those at Jugdea and Balasore escaped direct to Fulta.] [Footnote 9: Captain George Minchin.] [Footnote 10: Known in history as the Black Hole of Calcutta.] [Footnote 11: Both stories may be true. Manik Chand was nearly killed at the battle of Budge Budge by a bullet passing through his turban, and the incident of the _nautch_ may have happened at Calcutta, where he certainly showed less courage.] [Illustration: FORT D'ORLÉANS, CHANDERNAGORE, 1749. (_Mouchet._)] |
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