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Identifier: comprehensivehis01beve Title: A comprehensive history of India, civil, military, and social, from the first landing of the English to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt; including an outline of the early history of Hindoostan Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Beveridge, Henry, 1837-1929 Subjects: Publisher: London, Blackie Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto


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Text Appearing Before Image: seems to have contented himself with allowing the ganwm, as MrOrme expresses it, to lavish away their fire night and day on everything theysaw, h(!ard, or suspected. In this way they sustained more injury than theyinflicted, for twenty of the carriages of their own guns were disabled and theworks themselves shaken. The besiegers were thus permitted to proceedwith little interruption. By the 3()th they had advanced their trenches iowithin 200 yards of the glacis, and from twenty-one pieces of cannon andthirteen mortars kept up an incessant fire, with a constantly increasing supen-ority over that of the defenders, who were now beginning to feel the want ofthe ammunition of which they had been so lavi.sh at the commencement, whenno good purpose could be gained by it. It was now evident that the place mustfall if not speedily relieved. Of this there was still some hope. Admli-alPococke with his squadron was known to be on the coast; and as he had already gained some advantage Itardcn Iw

Text Appearing After Image: CountdAchcdeclines thecliallenge ofthe Britislifleet. over his opponent, it was natur-ally expected that he would notallow Fort St. David to fallwithout a strenuous effort tosave it. He did indeed makethis effort; and after ha\-ing beendriven northward as far asSadrass, had worked his wayback, but with so much diffi-culty, that he only gained fourleagues in two days. On the28th he descried the French fleetlying in the road to Pondicherry;but Count dAches courage hadcooled after his pre%ious encoun-ter, and instead of accepting thechallenge to fight, he resolved,with the sanction of his captainsand the governor and council, tokeep his ships moored near the shore under the protection of the batteries.Lally, hearing of this resolution and ashamed of it, hastened firom the siege,bringing with him a detachment of 400 Europeans and as many sepoys, whomlie tendered to Count dAche to serve on board the fleet. The want of men, inconsequence of the great number of sick who were on shore in the


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