The Celtic Magazine, Volume 2Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain A. and W. Mackenzie, 1877 - Clans |
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... officers . He crossed the Ghauts , and as a first step , on 9th July , invaded the Carnatic with an army of 100,000 men , plundered and burnt the country to within 50 miles of Madras , and laid siege to Arcot , the capital of the Nabob ...
... officers . He crossed the Ghauts , and as a first step , on 9th July , invaded the Carnatic with an army of 100,000 men , plundered and burnt the country to within 50 miles of Madras , and laid siege to Arcot , the capital of the Nabob ...
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... officer . What can I say more ? Given at Chepauk , 4th September 1780 . Lieutenant - Colonel Baillie . Colonel Baillie , by ... officers on their releasement from captivity . " It is in the hand - writing , to the best of our belief , of ...
... officer . What can I say more ? Given at Chepauk , 4th September 1780 . Lieutenant - Colonel Baillie . Colonel Baillie , by ... officers on their releasement from captivity . " It is in the hand - writing , to the best of our belief , of ...
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... officers readily gave into his way of thinking . By many reports Fletcher often repeated his wish of meeting with Hyder's whole force in broad day , and he looked on marching under the cover of night as a measure rather disgraceful ...
... officers readily gave into his way of thinking . By many reports Fletcher often repeated his wish of meeting with Hyder's whole force in broad day , and he looked on marching under the cover of night as a measure rather disgraceful ...
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... officer saw that the black troops particularly were quite disheartened . The enemy's guns were judiciously placed in divers stations behind trenches , and great bodies of their best horse drawn up on both flanks in readiness to charge ...
... officer saw that the black troops particularly were quite disheartened . The enemy's guns were judiciously placed in divers stations behind trenches , and great bodies of their best horse drawn up on both flanks in readiness to charge ...
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... officers now appeared . There was not one black man to face the enemy . Such as fled beyond the spot on which the Europeans rallied were all put to the sword , as appeared by their bones , which covered the plain for about three ...
... officers now appeared . There was not one black man to face the enemy . Such as fled beyond the spot on which the Europeans rallied were all put to the sword , as appeared by their bones , which covered the plain for about three ...
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