Excerpt from An Account of the War in India, Between the English and French, on the Coast of Coromandel, From the Year 1750 to the Year 1760: Together With a Relation of the Late Remarkable Events on the Malabar Coast, and the Expeditions to Golconda and Surat; With the Operations of the Fleet; Illustrated With Maps, Plans, &C., The Whole Compiled From Original Papers Ihave, therefore, in handling every new fubjeet, endeavoured to conhue myfelf to the mof't recent, as Swell as the thof't important events, alone; and have avoided going too far back in point of tithe, as that might occafion a confufion, by introducing a var1ety of perfons, and a multiplicity of' {trange names which would certainly give a heavinefs, if not a ridis cule, to the whole. This naturally leads to the mention of another diff ficuhy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.