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British Fort St George siege reports and naval actions
Letters from Fort St George dated July 5 1752 describe Clive's relief force at Vendloor Arcot pursuit and surrender of Chunda Saib after a siege near Trichinopoly. Major Lawrence leads 400 Europeans 1000 sepoys to Trichinopoly, French allied forces defeated, 50 killed, 30 000 enemy troops dispersed. News from Corsica warns of conflict with French regulations. Obituary notes Bishop George Berkeley. Plans appointions in Leeward Caribbee and North Carolina.
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Fort St. George
East Indies
Chunda Saib
Bengal
Clive
Madrass
Venddloor
Arcot
St. ‘David's
Dorrington
Lawrence
Fort St. David’s
Coiladdy
Law‘Jerice
Nabob
Trichinopoly
Allam Dawn
Chundah
Syringham
Trand
Monacjee
Hland
Pondicherry
Europe
Tanjore
Salabad Jing
Leghorn
Yealys
Corsica
Frankfort
Oxford
George Berkeley
Cloyne
Duke of Dorset
Ireland
Duke of Marlborough
St. James’s
George Thomas
Leeward Caribbee
Arthur Dosss
Govenor
North Carolina
Atton-News
New-Rork
Shoals
Man
Colgan
Griffiths
Bristol
Cedar
Grand Key
Leonard
Phoenix
Jamaica
Burger
Bowen
Guilford
Green
Jones
Furlong
John Galley
Clark
Coverly
Boston
Stoddard
Rhode Island
Johnson
Dolphin
Bermuda
Gulf
Havannah
London
Philadelphia
Admiralty
East- Indies
Prussia
Silesia
William SuuTe
Viscount Barrington
New-York
Jupiter
French
France
Liverpool
Virginia
Cape Hatteras’s Inlet
Weffel
Bermudas
Liborn