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BRITISH ACQUISITIONS IN THE 



No. XXV. 



Year. 



Territory. 



How acquired, and District now 

 representing it. 



Approximate 

 Area. 



[ Land 

 Revenue. 









SO.. MILES. 



RS. 



1749 .. 



The Town of 



(1.) 2nd October. — Farmdn from Maho- 



4-9 



13,502 





est. inome. 



med Ali (afterwards Walla j ah), Nawah 

 of the Carnatic, granting to the 

 English the town of Mayilapur or 

 St. Thome, now included in the city 

 of Madras (Local Records) ; but it 

 appears from Orme that the English 

 immediately after the restoration (15th 

 August 1749) of Madras by the French, 

 under the treaty of Aix la Chapelle, 

 took possession of St. Thome, for fear of 

 its falling into the hands of the French. 





1765 .. 





(2.) August 12th. — Grant confirmed, by 

 the Mogul's farmdn. 















No. XXVI. 



1749 .. 



1751 



1758 . 



17G0 .. 



Devikdta 



A town in the Tanjore District, near the 

 junction of the Coleroon with the sea, 

 37 miles south of Pondi cherry. 



(1.) Town and fort captured by Major 

 Lawrence in a war between the English 

 and Pratap Singh, Raja of Tanjore ; 

 commenced by the former with a new to 

 the restoration of Sahoji to the throne 

 of that kingdom ; but continued after it 

 became known that Sahoji was unaccep- 

 table to the Tanjorines— on their own 

 account, with a view " of making some 

 acquisitions to compensate the expenses 

 which had already been incurred " 

 (Orme). 



(2.) January 1st. — Ceded, with 31 sur- 

 rounding villages, to the English by 

 Raja Pratap Singh, on condition of 

 his receiving Military aid whenever 

 required : land revenue 9,000 pagodas 

 (Local Records) . 



(3.) June 4th.— Fortress abandoned by the 

 English garrison on the fall of Fort St. 

 David to Lally and the approach of a 

 large French force (Orme). 



(4.) February. — Evacuated by the French; ! 

 after Coote's victory at "Wandewash, 1 

 and regarrisoned by the English (Orme). 



SQ. MILES. 



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