Robert Orme: A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan, From the Year MDCCXLV. To which is Prefixed a Dissertaion on the Estavlishments Made by Mahomedan Conquerors in Indostan

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Robert Orme : A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan, From the Year MDCCXLV. To which is Prefixed a Dissertaion on the Estavlishments Made by Mahomedan Conquerors in Indostan

John Nourse, London, 1780

Rebacked in a quarter calf saving the original calf boards. Tooled gilt design of a seal on boards, Tooled gilt lettering on spine. , Boards worn otherwise a very good copy. Text and plates are clean. , 4to (205mm x 270mm), P. Vol1: Title, blank, Dedication, 1-436, Index (i-xcvii), Erratta (2), Binding directions (1); Vol2 pt 1: Title, blank, 1-36; Vol 2pt. 2: Title, 367-739, blank, Errata (3)., Illustrated with 35 fold out maps and plates. , Volume : Two volumes in three

Rober Orme, a British historian, was appointed as a Member of the Council at Fort St. George, Madras between 1754 and 1758, and in that capacity was instrumental in the sending of a young Robert Clive as the head of a military expedition in 1757 to Calcutta to avenge the alleged Black Hole incident of 1756.
He wrote History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan from 1745 (1763-78). He also published Historical Fragments of the Mogul Empire, the Morattoes and English Concerns in Indostan from 1659 (1782). His collections relating to India are preserved at the India Office.
He returned to England in 1760, and was appointed as historiographer to the British East India Company in 1769.


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