MADRAS, 1746 [1758]
"Plan of Madras and of the Fort of St. George, taken by the French the 24th September 1746," by Jacques Nicholas Bellin, Paris, 1758; CLICK ON THE MAP OR THE LEGEND FOR VERY LARGE SCANS
Madras surrendered Sept. 10, 1746, and was restored to the English
on
Aug. 21, 1749, in accordance with the terms of the Peace of
Aix-la-Chapelle;
*Macaulay's
account,
in
his
essay on Clive*
An English version of the map drawn
for the Universal Magazine, London, 1751, with added descriptions of
French destructiveness; CLICK ON THE MAP FOR A VERY LARGE SCAN
*Bellin's Madras map of 1764*, in which he recognizes the return to Company rule: *upper half*; *lower half*
Compare *"A Plan of Fort St. George and the City of Madras," by Herman Moll, London, 1726*
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