The Making of British India, 1756-1858Ramsay Muir University Press, 1915 - 398 էջ |
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Արդյունքներ 84–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... present general introduction all that we are concerned to do is to note certain broad features of the wonderful story . When the Company's arms had in 1757 replaced Siraj- uddaula by Mir Jafar as Nawab of Bengal , it was the hope and ...
... present general introduction all that we are concerned to do is to note certain broad features of the wonderful story . When the Company's arms had in 1757 replaced Siraj- uddaula by Mir Jafar as Nawab of Bengal , it was the hope and ...
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... present chapter are meant only to afford some illustration of the conditions precedent to the main story , without some understanding of which that story must remain unintelligible . The first excerpt is from the travels of Dr. Fryer ...
... present chapter are meant only to afford some illustration of the conditions precedent to the main story , without some understanding of which that story must remain unintelligible . The first excerpt is from the travels of Dr. Fryer ...
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... present terrible temptations to men whose sole purpose in India was the making of profits , who were paid absurdly small salaries , and who now found that the whole trade and population of a huge province lay at their mercy . They had ...
... present terrible temptations to men whose sole purpose in India was the making of profits , who were paid absurdly small salaries , and who now found that the whole trade and population of a huge province lay at their mercy . They had ...
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... present , judged the retreat was determined to be carried into execution . In the morning of the 19th . . our President Mr. Drake , ( and several others ) privately withdrew out of the back gate , deserted the factory and embarked on ...
... present , judged the retreat was determined to be carried into execution . In the morning of the 19th . . our President Mr. Drake , ( and several others ) privately withdrew out of the back gate , deserted the factory and embarked on ...
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... present permit me . . . . Of the enemy we killed first and last by their own confession 5000 of their troops and 80 jamadars 2 and officers of consequence exclusive of the wounded . The resistance we made and the loss they suffered so ...
... present permit me . . . . Of the enemy we killed first and last by their own confession 5000 of their troops and 80 jamadars 2 and officers of consequence exclusive of the wounded . The resistance we made and the loss they suffered so ...
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The Making of British India, 1756-1858: Described in a Series of Dispatches ... Ramsay Muir Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1923 |
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