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Sepoys and Griffins: January 2008
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Forts in the Vasai and Konkan Region. View my complete profile. Dutch and Portuguese colonial history source. Malabar Days, a site on Kerala History. Perry Castaneda Library for maps of India. Sunday, 13 January 2008. Forts in the Vasai and Konkan Region. Bassein Fort circa 1817, an engraving by Akermann circa 1820, from a drawing by Captn. James Barton. Please click on the picture for a larger version. Why should I, an Englishman be interested in these forts? What is especially poignant, is that this pa...
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Sepoys and Griffins: August 2008
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View my complete profile. Dutch and Portuguese colonial history source. Malabar Days, a site on Kerala History. Perry Castaneda Library for maps of India. Thursday, 14 August 2008. During 1857 my great great grandfather was serving with the Bombay Artillery in the campaign against the Persian's at Bulshire at the head of the Gulf. He's sitting in the boat holding onto the pontoon in the picture above. Somehow he came into contact with one of the very first cameras to be used in Asia. Sadly these lakes ar...
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Sepoys and Griffins: Captain Buckle and the Siege of Dohud
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Captain Buckle and the Siege of Dohud. Mulleer Viaduct carried away by storms in Sind in . View my complete profile. Dutch and Portuguese colonial history source. Malabar Days, a site on Kerala History. Perry Castaneda Library for maps of India. Sunday, 5 January 2014. Captain Buckle and the Siege of Dohud. Figure 1. The Gate to Dohud Fort. [1]. One such officer was Captain Christopher Buckle who in 1855. One of the challenges when using 19th Century accounts of events is that it is often very hard to wo...
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Sepoys and Griffins: September 2013
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Sumbhulpore, Diamonds, Dacoits and Distress. View my complete profile. Dutch and Portuguese colonial history source. Malabar Days, a site on Kerala History. Perry Castaneda Library for maps of India. Friday, 27 September 2013. From the Victoria and Albert Collection by Sir Charles Harcourt Chambers (1824-28). Click on image for larger version). Map showing the location of Panwell from Google Earth. Click on image for larger version). Tuesday Jan 13. [1818] "Embarked along with Osborne. Just one month lat...
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Malabar Days: May 2010
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Earlier posts about the Pazhassi Rajah. Now that you have seen the film, you might be interested to learn more about the real story behind the Raja. The back ground to the conflict starts here. The background to the conflict. Thomas Baber's report to his East India Company bosses describing the last month of the campaign against the Rajah is here. Setting out on the 1st of November 1805. The second part of his report is here. Cutting off his supporters and food. The third part of the report is here.
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Malabar Days: Thomas Baber's account of the death of the Pazhassi Rajah, Part 1.
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Earlier posts about the Pazhassi Rajah. Now that you have seen the film, you might be interested to learn more about the real story behind the Raja. The back ground to the conflict starts here. The background to the conflict. Thomas Baber's report to his East India Company bosses describing the last month of the campaign against the Rajah is here. Setting out on the 1st of November 1805. The second part of his report is here. Cutting off his supporters and food. The third part of the report is here.
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Malabar Days: Thomas Baber's account of the death of the Pazhassi Rajah, Part 4.
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Earlier posts about the Pazhassi Rajah. Now that you have seen the film, you might be interested to learn more about the real story behind the Raja. The back ground to the conflict starts here. The background to the conflict. Thomas Baber's report to his East India Company bosses describing the last month of the campaign against the Rajah is here. Setting out on the 1st of November 1805. The second part of his report is here. Cutting off his supporters and food. The third part of the report is here.
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Sepoys and Griffins: January 2014
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Captain Buckle and the Siege of Dohud. Mulleer Viaduct carried away by storms in Sind in . View my complete profile. Dutch and Portuguese colonial history source. Malabar Days, a site on Kerala History. Perry Castaneda Library for maps of India. Sunday, 5 January 2014. Captain Buckle and the Siege of Dohud. Figure 1. The Gate to Dohud Fort. [1]. One such officer was Captain Christopher Buckle who in 1855. One of the challenges when using 19th Century accounts of events is that it is often very hard to wo...
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Sepoys and Griffins: Mulleer Viaduct carried away by storms in Sind in 1866
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Captain Buckle and the Siege of Dohud. Mulleer Viaduct carried away by storms in Sind in . View my complete profile. Dutch and Portuguese colonial history source. Malabar Days, a site on Kerala History. Perry Castaneda Library for maps of India. Sunday, 5 January 2014. Mulleer Viaduct carried away by storms in Sind in 1866. Mulleer Viaduct in Sind in 1866. Note the windmill in the distance. In the aftermath of these floods in 1866, which appear to have affected a very wide swath of India and not just Sin...
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Sepoys and Griffins: Choultries and where to stay of a night?
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Sir Bartle Frere and family. Kamptee Bridge and a case of Criminal Conversation. Choultries and where to stay of a night? View my complete profile. Dutch and Portuguese colonial history source. Malabar Days, a site on Kerala History. Perry Castaneda Library for maps of India. Saturday, 5 October 2013. Choultries and where to stay of a night? A Choultry at Visakhapatnam. Recently Julian Craig raised a couple of interesting points in response to an earlier blog post that I had written about the Panwell Inn.
