When the English and the Nawab of Bengal went to war in 1757, three French officials stood in the way: Renault at Chandernagore, Law at Cossimbazar and Courtin at Dacca. Using their memoirs and unpublished records from the archives of Calcutta, London and Paris, Hill shows how each tried to save his settlement as the Nawab wavered and Clive’s forces advanced.
A close-focus study of the Anglo-French rivalry that decided who would rule India, for readers of colonial and East India Company history. Download the free EPUB.