Table of Contents
Introduction vii
Chapter 1 Mercantile Soldiering 1
Chapter 2 Calcutta 17
Chapter 3 Into the Black Hole 34
Chapter 4 To Fulta and Back Again 51
Chapter 5 Drums along the Hoogli 66
Chapter 6 The Battle of Plassey 85
Epilogue: Patna 101
Appendices
Appendix 1 East India Company Forces in Bengal 1756-1757 105
Appendix 2 The Bengali Forces 129
Appendix 3 Captain Alexander Grant's Accounts of the Fall of Calcutta 135
Appendix 4 The Black Hole of Calcutta 156
Appendix 5 Clive's Headquarters Journal of the Expedition to Bengal 167
Appendix 6 Captain Eyre Coote's Journal 186
Appendix 7 Various Contemporary Accounts of the Battle of Flassey 202
Appendix 8 Orme's Account of the Pursuit of the French up the Ganges 219
Appendix 9 A General Return of all the Troops Under the Command of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Clive 226
Appendix 10 A General Return of the Sepoys Under the Command of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Clive 229
Appendix 11 A General Muster Of The Troops Under The Command Of Colonel Clive In Camp Near Chinsura 234
Appendix 12 A General Muster of the Troops in the Train Under the Command of Colonel Clive in Camp Near Chinsura 234
Notes 237
Bibliography 267
Index 268
