Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.33
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.33
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1758.—“Notwithstanding these solemn assurances from the Dutch it was judged . . . expedient to send a detachment of troops . . . to take possession of Tanna Fort and Charnoc’s Battery opposite to it.”—Narrative of Dutch attempt in the Hoogly, in Malcolm’s Life of Clive, ii. 76.