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'A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.' [‎127] (164/562)

The record is made up of 1 volume (518 pages). It was created in 1866. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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Our preparations for the attack of this place had unavoidably been 5757.
carried on fo openly, that it was impoflible they fhould be a fecret to the v——'
French, who had therefore made ule of every poffible method to fruftrate
our defign. Juft below the fort of Chandernagore, there was a large bank of
fand, which made the paffage very narrow ^ to block up this channel, they
had funk three fhips loaded with ballad ; the mails of which however ap
peared above water. Three other large fhips lay at anchor above the fort;
Thefe, it was faid, were prepared as fire-fhips, to be fent down with the
tide to. burn our fquadron in the middle of the night. The admiral there
fore refolved to be beforehand with them, and gave orders that all the boats
of the fhips fhould go up as foon as the night came on, and endeavour
to cut their cables. This was accordingly done, and they all drove upon
the fands. It afterwards appeared, that the crews belonging to thofe fhips
had been taken out to reinforce the garrifon..
The attack of the fort would probably have taken, place the next morn-
Ing, had the tides in the river been at all favourable for that purpofe •, but
unfortunately for us, they ferved either too early in the morning, or too
late in the afternoon. This circumftance obliged the admiral to poftpone
the attack for two or three days. In the mean time he fent Lieutenant
Hey with a flag of truce to the governor, demanding a furrender of the
place, which he politely, but refolutely refufed to give up. Mr. Hey^
having obferved, as he pafled between the vefTels mafts, which were funk
in the channel of the river, that their hulls were not deep under water-,.
Mr. John Delamotte, a brave and adive officer, and who was mafter on
board the admiral's fhip, was the next day fent to found around them •, and
notwithftanding all the efforts of the enemy to interrupt him by an inceffant
liring of their cannon, he brought back the agreeable news, that there was
room for our fhips to pafs with fafety between them. But befides the ob-
ftruflion which we expeded to meet with from thefe funken veffels i the
French had taken care to ereft two batteries of heavy cannon to render rhis
narrow pafs ftill more difficult and dangerous. One of thefe was conftrufted
in the form of a half moon, and lay on the very brink of the river, within
mufket fhot of the funken veffels •, the other y/as a fafcine-battery on the
glacis of the fort, and was intended to rake our ffiips fore and aft.—The
cannon on their fouth baftion could alfo be brought to fire down the
river.
The difpofition made for attacking the fort was as follows. The tyger
was to be placed againft the N. E. baftion j the Kent againft the curtain
between the baftions oppofite the gate-, and the Salijhury againft the S. E..
baftion. Before we began the attack, it was judged abfolutely neceflary
that Colonel Clive fhould ere6l a battery on the fide of the river, to fire on
the fouth face of the enemy's S. E. baftion, and in cafe of an obftinate
sefiftance, that we might breach that baftion by a crofs fire from the ihips,
, - and;

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A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.

Publication Details: London : Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773.

Ownership: With stamps of the India Board and India Board Library.

There are numerous illustrations and two maps in the volume:

  • a copy of a large folded map at the beginning of the volume, 'A Map of India together with a chart of the Indien Seas, to which the operations of Admiral Watson's Squadron were principally confined; and shewing the passages made by Commodore James from Madrass to Bombay in the years 1754 & 1755 ... By Thomas Kitchin, Hydrographer to his Majesty';
  • a map of the route from the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. in Basra to Latakia, Syria, on the Mediterranean Coast 'Mr Ives's Route from Bassora to Latichea.
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1 volume (518 pages)
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There is a table of content at the beginning of the volume, detailing the arrangement of contents and page references (pages viii-xi) and a 'Table of Coins and Monies' (page xii).

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Dimensions: 280 mm x 220 mm.

Pagination: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xii); (1-506).

Condition: there is a large folded map, unfolding can be difficult withouth risk of tears.

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