The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 6. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's Sons, 1878 |
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... English Channel or through Belgium and North Germany , while high pressure prevails in the north , the winter is characterized by frosts and snows . The worst summer weather in Great Britain is when low pressures prevail over the North ...
... English Channel or through Belgium and North Germany , while high pressure prevails in the north , the winter is characterized by frosts and snows . The worst summer weather in Great Britain is when low pressures prevail over the North ...
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... English battalion . Clive offered to attack Arcot that he might force Chunda Sahib to raise the siege of Trichinopoly . But Madras and Fort St David could supply him with only 200 Europeans and 300 sepoys . Of the eight officers who led ...
... English battalion . Clive offered to attack Arcot that he might force Chunda Sahib to raise the siege of Trichinopoly . But Madras and Fort St David could supply him with only 200 Europeans and 300 sepoys . Of the eight officers who led ...
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... English . They formed a confederacy to depose him , at the head of which was Jaffier Ali Khan , his commander - in - chief . Associating with himself Admiral Watson , Governor Drake , and Mr Watts , Clive made a treaty in which it was ...
... English . They formed a confederacy to depose him , at the head of which was Jaffier Ali Khan , his commander - in - chief . Associating with himself Admiral Watson , Governor Drake , and Mr Watts , Clive made a treaty in which it was ...
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... English officials . After a brief tenure Kossim Ali had filed , had ordered Summers , or Sumroo , a Swiss mercenary of his , to butcher the garrison of 150 English at Patna , and had disappeared under the protection of his brother ...
... English officials . After a brief tenure Kossim Ali had filed , had ordered Summers , or Sumroo , a Swiss mercenary of his , to butcher the garrison of 150 English at Patna , and had disappeared under the protection of his brother ...
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... English dining - table covered with embroidered cloth and surmounted by a chair in Clive's tent . It is all pictured by a Mahometan contemporary , who indignantly exclaims that so great a " transaction was done and finished in less time ...
... English dining - table covered with embroidered cloth and surmounted by a chair in Clive's tent . It is all pictured by a Mahometan contemporary , who indignantly exclaims that so great a " transaction was done and finished in less time ...
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