History of the French in India, From the Founding of Pondichery in 1674 to the Capture of That Place in 1761
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razed to the ground. 1758. Thus, in less than five weeks after his landing, had Lally, notwithstanding difficulties unheard of and almost inconceivable, certainly entirely unexpected, carried out one part of his programme. He had driven the English from one of their principal settlements — from that one indeed which for a long time had remained their seat of government, which had defied the efforts of Dupleix, and whence Lawrence and Clive had sallied to baffle the French arms at Trichinapalli.... But he did not stop here. The very day of the surrender, the Count d'Estaing was detached to Devikota, which the English garrison, counting only 30 Europeans and 600 sipahis abandoned on his approach. Whilst this expedition was in course of progress, d'Ache landed at Fort St. David, and dined with Lally, who seized the occasion to open to him his new designs. Now was the time, he said, to attack Madras. The place was unfortified, the garrison weak, the Council discouraged by the capture of Fort St.
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