Annual Register, Volume 25Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1800 - History |
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... Company and Hyder Ally , concluded at Madras in the year 1769. Re- fufal to furnish Hyder with the fuccours ftipulated by treaty in his fubfequent ruinous war with the Marattas , eftranges that prince from the Company , and oc- cafions ...
... Company and Hyder Ally , concluded at Madras in the year 1769. Re- fufal to furnish Hyder with the fuccours ftipulated by treaty in his fubfequent ruinous war with the Marattas , eftranges that prince from the Company , and oc- cafions ...
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... Company . New fyftems of policy adopted . Ragonaut Row is still protected , and various intrigues entered into for a revolution in the Maratta government in his favour . New demands to be made upon the court of Poonah , the rejection of ...
... Company . New fyftems of policy adopted . Ragonaut Row is still protected , and various intrigues entered into for a revolution in the Maratta government in his favour . New demands to be made upon the court of Poonah , the rejection of ...
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... Company's fervants , naturally tend- ed to its production ; and it will not be doubted that conqueft and the overthrow of states are attend- ed with circumstances , which pro- mife a full gratification to fome of the ftrongest paffions ...
... Company's fervants , naturally tend- ed to its production ; and it will not be doubted that conqueft and the overthrow of states are attend- ed with circumstances , which pro- mife a full gratification to fome of the ftrongest paffions ...
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... Company stood for fome years back , with refpect to their other powerful and formidable neighbour Hyder Ally . When that bold and enterprizing prince brought the war , which had been commenced against him , to a for- tunate iffue in the ...
... Company stood for fome years back , with refpect to their other powerful and formidable neighbour Hyder Ally . When that bold and enterprizing prince brought the war , which had been commenced against him , to a for- tunate iffue in the ...
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... Company , as would at leaft have rendered the government of Bombay equal to the fupport of their own civil and military establishment , without being any longer a conftant drain to Bengal . Under the fever ex- cited by thefe profpects ...
... Company , as would at leaft have rendered the government of Bombay equal to the fupport of their own civil and military establishment , without being any longer a conftant drain to Bengal . Under the fever ex- cited by thefe profpects ...
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