Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 16, 2025
In the mean time fate had avenged Law on one of his lesser enemies. This was that Ranjit Rai, who had insulted him during his interview with the Seths. The latter had pursued their old policy of inciting the English to make extravagant demands which they at the same time urged the Nawab to refuse.
Merriman, had told heavily upon their health and spirits. Rumor brought news of the tragedy of the Black Hole: they heard that the few survivors were prisoners of the Nawab; and they feared the worst.
He was with him at the capture of Hugli, and in that brisk fight at Calcutta on the fifth of February, which gave the Nawab his first taste of British quality. Sirajuddaula was encamped to the northeast of the town with a huge army. In a heavy fog, about daybreak, Clive came up at the head of a mixed force of king's troops, sepoys and sailors, some two thousand men in all.
"Accordingly, no sooner had the Nawab heard the contents of the answer from the English, than he jumped up in anger, and, pulling out his sword, swore he would go and exterminate all the Feringhees. At the same time he gave orders for the march of his army, and appointed several Jemadars to command the advance guard.
On his way to the northwest he fell into the hands of the ambitious Nawab Vazir of Audh, who had received the Abdali's orders to render the Emperor all assistance, and who carried out the letter of these instructions by retaining him for some two years in an honourable confinement, surrounded by the empty signs of sovereignty, sometimes at Benares, sometimes at Allahabad, and sometimes at Lucknow.
"It was not till seven or eight days after I had set out with this fine troop that I learned there had been a battle at Plassey between the English and the Nawab, in which the latter had been defeated and forced to flee, and that Jafar Ali Khan, his maternal uncle, had been enthroned in his place.
Answer. This to be left to the Admiral's sense of equity. The French Factories up-country to be left in the hands of their present chiefs. Answer. This to be settled by the Nawab and the Admiral. The French Company's servants to go where they please, with their clothes and linen. Answer. Agreed to. It is evident that the capitulation was badly drawn up.
This the Nawab refused to do, though he wrote, promising that he would hold as enemies all who were enemies of Clive a promise that bore bitter fruit before many months had passed. The French were keen rivals of the Company in the trade of India, and constantly took advantage of native troubles to score a point in the game.
The Nawab has taken the fort. We are beaten, shamed, ruined!" "How did it happen? I heard the firing. Tell me; it can not be so bad as that. Sure something can be done!" "Nothing, nothing; we did all we could. 'Twas little; would that Drake had heeded our advice!
"From the letters that have lately passed between the Nawab and us, we have great reason to hope he will not screen the French at all at Cossimbazar or Dacca.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking