Annual Register, Volume 1Edmund Burke 1759 - History |
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... taken by the French . Calcutta taken by the Nabob . Angria reduced by Admiral Watson CHA P. III . 9 State of the confederacy against the King of Prufia . French pass the Wefer . King of Pruffia enters Bohemia . Battle of Prague . Prague ...
... taken by the French . Calcutta taken by the Nabob . Angria reduced by Admiral Watson CHA P. III . 9 State of the confederacy against the King of Prufia . French pass the Wefer . King of Pruffia enters Bohemia . Battle of Prague . Prague ...
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... taken . Exploits of Admiral Watjon and Colonel Clive in India . Chandenagore a French fort taken . Victory over the Nabob . Nabob taken and beheaded . Revolution in Bengal . Treaty advantageous to the East - India company . Admiral ...
... taken . Exploits of Admiral Watjon and Colonel Clive in India . Chandenagore a French fort taken . Victory over the Nabob . Nabob taken and beheaded . Revolution in Bengal . Treaty advantageous to the East - India company . Admiral ...
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... ourfelves to the history of the year . We have taken the war from its commencement . It is a fubject which re- quires all the pains which we could bestow upon upon it , and deferves much more fkilful workmen . iv PREFACE .
... ourfelves to the history of the year . We have taken the war from its commencement . It is a fubject which re- quires all the pains which we could bestow upon upon it , and deferves much more fkilful workmen . iv PREFACE .
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... taken . Braddock defeated . General Johnson repulfes the French . French threaten an invafion . Fort St. Philip befieged and taken . Treaty with Ruffia , the fpirit of it . Alliance with the King of Prufia . Ground of the quarrel ...
... taken . Braddock defeated . General Johnson repulfes the French . French threaten an invafion . Fort St. Philip befieged and taken . Treaty with Ruffia , the fpirit of it . Alliance with the King of Prufia . Ground of the quarrel ...
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... taken in , were confidered as belonging to a party not perfectly united with the remains of the old administration . It was thought that the leading man of this party proposed to work out the old fervants of the Crown , in order to make ...
... taken in , were confidered as belonging to a party not perfectly united with the remains of the old administration . It was thought that the leading man of this party proposed to work out the old fervants of the Crown , in order to make ...
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