The Quarterly Review, Volume 232William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1919 |
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... Nawab , Chanda Sahib , marched to attack Trichinopoly , the only refuge of the English candidate , Muhammad Ali ... Nawab's protests would have retired behind its walls . Luckily the French troops with Chanda Sahib were commanded by ...
... Nawab , Chanda Sahib , marched to attack Trichinopoly , the only refuge of the English candidate , Muhammad Ali ... Nawab's protests would have retired behind its walls . Luckily the French troops with Chanda Sahib were commanded by ...
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... Nawab ordered the new works to be demolished . The English were unwise enough to explain . Siraj - ud - daula seems to have sup- posed that these nations meditated a repetition in Bengal of the events which had laid waste the Carnatic ...
... Nawab ordered the new works to be demolished . The English were unwise enough to explain . Siraj - ud - daula seems to have sup- posed that these nations meditated a repetition in Bengal of the events which had laid waste the Carnatic ...
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... Nawab's own turn . Just as Dupleix had joined the conspiracy of Pathan nawabs against Nasir Jang , so Clive joined in a plot , supported largely by Hindus , to overthrow Siraj - ud - daula and establish Mir Jaffar as Nawab . The latter ...
... Nawab's own turn . Just as Dupleix had joined the conspiracy of Pathan nawabs against Nasir Jang , so Clive joined in a plot , supported largely by Hindus , to overthrow Siraj - ud - daula and establish Mir Jaffar as Nawab . The latter ...
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... Nawab into Behar . At his approach the rebels submitted ; Rai Durlabh agreed to proceed with him to Patna ; and , on ... Nawab's gratitude . Mir Jaffar was much displeased at finding those whom he had hoped to plunder guarded by so ...
... Nawab into Behar . At his approach the rebels submitted ; Rai Durlabh agreed to proceed with him to Patna ; and , on ... Nawab's gratitude . Mir Jaffar was much displeased at finding those whom he had hoped to plunder guarded by so ...
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... Nawab regarded English control a heaven - sent opportunity for intervention . Accordingly they entered into relations with Miran , at first ( it seems ) to establish him instead of his father ; subsequently Mir Jaffar himself was ...
... Nawab regarded English control a heaven - sent opportunity for intervention . Accordingly they entered into relations with Miran , at first ( it seems ) to establish him instead of his father ; subsequently Mir Jaffar himself was ...
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