PRESIDENCY OF FORT ST. GEORGE. Ill 



No. XI— (Continued). 



Year. 



Territory. 



How acquired, and District now 

 representing it. 



Approximate 

 Area. 



Land 

 Revenue. 



1758 .. 

 1760 .. 



1782 .. 

 1785 .. 



Cuddalore — 

 (Contin ued). 



(5.) Surrendered to Lally, 4th May (Orme). 



(6.) April. — Retaken by detachment under 

 Assaf Beg, sent by Coote after his vic- 

 tory at Wandiwash (Orme). 



(7.) April 8th.— Capitulated to the French, 

 assisted by the Mysoreans (Wilks). 



(8.) 1st February.— Restored to England 

 by France under the treaty of Versailles, 

 dated 3rd September 1783. 







No. XII. 



1683 



Vizagapatam, 

 Fortified 

 Factory of. 



1689 



1690 



1692 

 1702 



1716 



1757 

 1758 



1765 



A seaport, capital of district of that name. 



(1.) Supposed date of establishing settle- 

 ment (being the first mention of it). 

 The date is not given by Bruce, nor in 

 the Local Records which go back to 1670 

 only. If the date is correct, the grant 

 must have issued from the King of Gol- 

 conda or his local officers. 



(2.) September 13th. — Factory seized and 

 the English officers put to the sword by 

 the Mogul's orders, owing to the rupture 

 between Aurangzeb and the Company in 

 that year. 



(3.) 28th December.— Kaul for the factory 

 renewed by Zulfakar Khan, the Mogul 

 General in the Deccan. 



(4.) April. — Factory allowed to be forti- 

 fied by the same authority. 



(5.) Entered in the Dead Stock account 

 taken on the union of the two East India 

 Companies. It is there described as " the 

 Fort and Factory at Vizagapatam." 



(6.) Farman from the Emperor Faroksir 

 confirming the possession of the settle- 

 ment (Local Records). 



(7.) 2oth June. — Captured by the French 

 under Bussy (Orme). 



(8.) 12th September. — Presented to the 

 English by the Raja of Vizianagram 

 after capturing it from the French 

 garrison (Orme). 



(9.) August 12th.— Grant confirmed by 

 the Mogul's farm&n. 



Fortified 

 Factory 

 only. 



Nil. 



