ISBN: 9788180940385 - fort st. george madras (5 Ergebnisse)

Contents 1 Why Fort St George was Founded 2 The Infancy of Fort St George 3 The Early Growth of Fort St George 4 The Garrison of Fort St George and the Soldier of Two Centuries Ago 5 The Peccadilloes of the Company?s Servants 6 Streynsham Master Pilots and Diamonds 7 St Mary?s Church and the Vestry 8 The Exchange Master?s Character and Family 9 Taxes Slavery and Interlopers 10 Pirates and Princes; and the Retirement of Gyfford 11 Elihu Yale the Mayor?s Court and Other Matters 12 Job Charnock?s Visit to Fort St George and the Baptism of his Children 13  Fifty Years of Merchant Governors Higginson Pitt Addison Fraser Harrison Collet and Milton?s Descendants 14 Fifty Years of Merchant Governors Continued 15  Clive Dupleix the Capitulation of Fort St George to the French 1746 and its Siege by Lally in 1758 16 Pigot  Cornwallis Munro and Others 17 Fort St George in the Present Day 18 The Monuments of the Old Cemetery Appendix Index This book is a short history of the Fort St George the first possession of the British in India The author briefly narrates the entire history of the fort?why it was founded its infancy and early growth during the early 1600s the various British possessors of the fort during the various periods a detailed description of the various monuments churches etc within the fort up to the details of the fort in the early nineteenth century The fine illustrations provided throughout would enable the reader to have a clear picture of this great fort.…

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