CONTENTS 



OF 



THE SECOND VOLUME. 



CHAPTER I. 



BRITISn CONQUEST OF BENO^t. 



Difficulties of the early Settlements— Reign of Aliverdi Khan— Suc- 

 ceeded by Surajah Dowlah — His Jealousy of the English— Captures 

 Cossimbuzar — Advances upon Calcutta— Plans of Defence — Proceed- 

 ings of the Enemy— Garrison deserted by the Ships and the Governor 

 — Surrender — Confinement in the Black Hole — Dreadful Sufferings — 

 Conduct of the Nabob— Armament from Madras under dive and Wat- 

 son — Their Landing and first Encounter with the Enemy — Calcutta 

 surrenders — Surajah Dowlah attempts to retake it — Treaty— Capture 

 of Chandernagore — Plan of dethroning the Nabob — Intrigues— Trea- 

 chery of Meer Jaffier — Advance of Ciive — Battle of Plassey — Eleva- 

 tion of Meer Jaflier — Capture and Death of Surajah Dowlah — Invasion 

 by the Shazada— Defeat of the Mogul and the Nabob of Oude— Bad 

 Conduct of the new Nabob — Succeeded by Meer Cossim — His Dis- 

 putes with the Company — Rupture — Patna taken and retaken — Victory 

 gained by Major Adams — Massacre of English Prisoners — MeenCos. 

 sim's Flight into Oude — Repeated Defeats of Sujah Dowlah — The 

 Mogul joins the English— Death of Meer Jaffier — Clive returns to In- 

 dia—Restores Sujah Dowlah — Obtains for the Company the De- 

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CHAPTER II. 



WAR WITH MYSORE 



Formation of the Kingdom of Mysore— Influence of the Ministers Dcoraj 

 and Nunjeraj— Hyder— His Parentage— His early Destitution— Begins 

 to distinguish himself— Mode in which he forms a Body of Adherents 

 — Commands at Dindigul — His power augmented — Violence of Nun 

 jeraj, who is reduced to Distress — Hyder relieves and then supplants 

 him — His own Danger — Extricates himself, and becomes complete 

 Master of Mysore — Conquest of Bednore— Invasion by the Mahrattas 

 — Conquest of Calicut — The English join a Confederacy against him 

 —The Mahrattas make Peace— Nizam joins Hyder against the Eng- 

 lish—They invade the Carnatic — Threaten Madras— Battle of TriDo 

 malee— Nizam quits the Alliance — Invasion of Mysqre Smresses of 



