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during the long years of peace to admit air and light. The wooden platforms of the bastions were so rotten that they could support far fewer cannons than intended, and most of the cannons proved unusable in any case. All the south wall warehouses, or godowns, had been erected outside the fort, which precluded any flanking fire from the two south bastions.
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any new construction, promising to protect both foreign enclaves from attack as his grandfather had before him. The French, realizing just how tenuous their position in Bengal really was, meekly replied that they were not building foreign fortifications, merely repairing their existing structures.
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combined a disastrous incapacity for planning and decision making with a degree of personal arrogance that had already alienated most of his fellow countrymen. The few men there who were capable and levelheaded were too low in the company's hierarchy, and their advice was ignored.
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to send reinforcements — but the issue had been decided before the letters could be answered. Drake then attempted to appease the nawab's anger by promising to submit to all of his demands, but it was too late.
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2109:Satyajit Ray
2049:Coffee House
1950:Kolkata LRTS
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1556:Industry and
1543:Vivek Tirtha
1238:Jeevan Sudha
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159:Belligerents
121:Bengal Subah
107:20 June 1756
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2545:Subroto Cup
2223:Armani-para
1739:ITC Limited
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1248:Hiland Park
1223:Tata Centre
1183:Grand Hotel
823:Dalley, Jan
554:Cossimbazar
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496:Roger Drake
452:Raj Ballabh
309:Masulipatam
191:Roger Drake
139:Territorial
2718:Categories
2455:IFA Shield
2253:Belur Math
2225:(Armenian)
2164:Mishti Hub
1819:VISA Steel
1719:Hind Motor
1682:Coal India
1218:South City
1052:Localities
973:Gobindapur
842:References
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448:Kissendass
32:neutrality
2681:Tala tank
2666:Sonagachi
2520:United SC
2292:Christian
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2207:(Chinese)
2139:Tollywood
2059:Festivals
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