Three Frenchmen in Bengal - The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements in 1757 by S. C. (Samuel Charles) Hill
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[Footnote 35: Governor.] [Footnote 36: A document authorising the free transit of certain goods, and their exemption from custom dues, in favour of English traders.--_Wilson_.] [Footnote 37: Orme MSS. India XI., p. 2744, No. 71.] [Footnote 38: Orme MSS. India XI., p. 2750, No. 83.] [Footnote 39: Still visible, I believe, in parts. The gateway certainly exists.] [Footnote 40: Mr. Tooke was a Company's servant. He had distinguished himself in the defence of Calcutta in 1756, when he was wounded, and, being taken on board the ships, escaped the dreadful ordeal of the Black Hole.] [Footnote 41: Neither of these accounts agree with the Capitulation Returns.] [Footnote 42: British Museum. Addl. MS. 20,914.] [Footnote 43: Remarks on board His Majesty's ship _Tyger_, March 15th.] [Footnote 44: His maternal grandfather was a cousin of Aliverdi Khan.] |
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