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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Orme India I
Title:: Book, and Correspondences chiefly regarding Arcot, and Clive
Scope & Content:: 1, pp. [i-iv] and 1-49. General Idea of the Government and People of Indostan, by Robert Orme, Sept. 1753. Apparently a copy of the missing volume 53. Preface and three Books." Book I. composed at Calcutta., Sept. 1752, corrected on board the ship Pelham, 1753" ; "Book II. Composed at Calcutta i...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1760s-1780s
Extent:: 1 volume, 261 pages

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Orme India II
Title:: Correspondences Regarding The French Military Presence and Their Defeat
Scope & Content:: 1, pp. 251-268. Journal de ce qui s'est passé depuis la mort de Naerdjang et pendant le séjour du Seigneur Mozaferdjang dans la ville de Pondicherry. Copied from 15.5. This covers the period 16 December 1750 to 15 Janurary 1751. 2, pp. 268-276. Part of a letter, dated – 1751, from Captain Cope...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1760s-1780s
Extent:: 1 volume, 269 pages

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Orme India III
Title:: Correspondences Relating to Fighting the French Army
Scope & Content:: pp. [i-iii]. Index, i.e., Table of Contents. Continued at the end of the volume. 1, pp. 517-594. Part of a narrative composed by Captain John Dalton, of the military transactions in the Carnatic from the taking of Captain Maskelyne, June 1751 to the 14th of November 1753, when Captain Dalton le...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1760s-1780s
Extent:: 1 volume, 278 pages

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Orme India IV
Title:: Correspondences Chiefly Relating to the Defences and Loss of Calcutta, and Jaffer Ally Cawn
Scope & Content:: 1, pp. 789-800. Journal of the Proceedings of the Troops commanded by Colonel Clive on the expedition to Bengal. Copied from 20. 4. 2, pp. 801-803. Letter dated Fort St. George, 29 April 1757, from Capt. Jonathan Brooke to –. Copied from 20.2. 3, pp. 804-821. Account of the loss of Calcutta by...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1760s-1780s
Extent:: 1 volume, 273 pages

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Orme India IX
Title:: Documents Relating To the Military Presence at Madras and Bombay, and correspondences of such other officials as Watt's and the French Governor-General Dupleix
Scope & Content:: [pp. i-iii]. Index, i.e. Table of Contents. Continued at the end of the volume. 1, pp. 2126-2158. Account of the Island of Bombay by a person unknown, with an index (p. 2158). Continued from VII I. 17 above. 2, pp. 2159-2174. From this to page 2174 are the adventures of a person unknown, who c...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1760s-1780s
Extent:: 1 volume, 269 pages

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Orme India J
Title:: Various Early Printed Papers Relating to India
Scope & Content:: pp. [i-iii]. Table of Contents. As the volume contains only printed papers, it is probably only the first volume of a collection of printed papers dealing with India, but as it is lettered on the back "India, 1753-1774, Vol. J," it has been included here. 1, pp. 1-4 (37 X 27 cm.) (cut down). By...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Portuguese
Date Range:: 1753-1774
Extent:: 1 Volume, 391 pages

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Orme India V
Title:: Correspondences Chiefly Regarding Intelligence, Descriptions, and Indigenous Leaders
Scope & Content:: 1, pp. 1060-1086, Narrative of the affairs and War of the Carnatic from the death of Murzafajing, Feby. 1751 to the Escalacle of Tritchanopoly, &c., December 1753. Copied from 15. 1. Pages 1071-1073 are copied in II. 26 above. 2, pp. 1086-1087. Description of Tritchanopoly, Copied from 15.2...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1760s-1780s
Extent:: 1 volume, 269 pages

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Orme India VI
Title:: Correspondences Relating to British Personnel in India
Scope & Content:: 1, p. 1324. A list of the officers killed and wounded in the siege of Fort St. George, 1759. Copied from 26. 1. 2, p. 1325. Ammunition expended in the siege of Fort St. George, 1759. Copied from 26. 2. 3, pp. 1325-1327. Account of the battle of Wandewash, dated 23 Jan. 1761, with a return of t...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1760s-1780s
Extent:: 1 volume, 268 pages

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Orme India VII
Title:: Correspondences Chiefly Regarding the Pursuit of the French Army, and Other Military Matters in Bengal
Scope & Content:: 1, pp: 1590-1607. Journal of the Transactions of the Engrish at Patna, from the 23rd June 1763 to Oct. 6th, when the English prisoners were massacred by Cossimally's orders, wrote by [Dr. Anderson] an eye-witness and an unhappy sufferer. Copied from 84. l. Printed in J. Talboys Wheeler's Memoran...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1760s-1780s
Extent:: 1 volume, 275 pages

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Orme India VIII
Title:: Correspondences and Journals of Officers and Officials, Chiefly Those of Colonel Coote, and of Lally, Regarding Pondicherry and the East India Company Military Forces
Scope & Content:: 1, pp. 1860-1897. Letters from Captain Vasserot to Mr. Vansittart, from 26 November 1759 to – July 1760, with explicit intelligence of the transactions of the Camp and Army. Copied from 22. 1. The campaign against Lally. 2, pp. 1898-2017. Colonel Coote's Journal, commencing from his departure f...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1760s-1780s
Extent:: 1 volume, 271 pages

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