Word: nawab
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After Drake's desertion, command was awarded to Chief Magistrate John Zephaniah Holwell, a man with a will to win. The garrison, now reduced to 170 fighting men, battled so fiercely that Indian losses soon stood at 7,000 dead. Once again, the Nawab stood ready to lift the siege, but once again his enemies rescued him. Fifty-six Dutch mercenaries sold out to the Indian leader and handed over the fort...
...horrors began early in June 1756, when the Nawab of Bengal, taking umbrage at the swaggering economic imperialism of the British, marched on Fort William, the East India Company's stronghold in the brawling boom town of Calcutta. There were 50,000 regulars in the Nawab's army, and in the fort only 515 Europeans able to bear arms -such arms as were available. Thanks to Governor Roger Drake, a 34-year-old ineffectual, fifty cannon were rusted useless, and almost all the powder was too damp to burn...
Sold Out. Nevertheless, the siege began with a British victory. One English officer and 57 men held an outpost for nine hours against the attacks of 5,000 Indians. The Nawab prepared to order a general retreat, but he did not have to: Drake retreated first. In a panic he abandoned a key position-and then hid in a cellar, where he fell asleep on a storage bin. After he woke up, Drake took his first and last decisive action. He strode to the riverbank, jumped into a rowboat, and was last seen shinnying shamelessly aboard a merchantman moored near...
...half as large as a football field and has a total population of two. One of them, the reigning Lieutenant Grand Master, was far too busy to see Sack. In Monaco, Sack missed Prince Rainier, but everywhere else he hobnobbed with the princes, seneschals, presidents, captains regent, sheiks, nawabs, rahs and dewans of postage-stamp domains from Sark in the English Channel to Sikkim on the edge of Tibet. The Nawab of Amb, a country that is gradually being swallowed up by Pakistan, told Sack of his philanthropies (he had just given 60?to a beggar, $3.60 to an orphanage...
...wedding had a special meaning for another of the Nizam's offspring, Shahazadi Pasha, his eldest daughter by a legal wife. She had also been betrothed to a nawab long ago, but the Nizam abruptly canceled the wedding when he was warned by a passing holy man that he would not long survive her marriage. Shahazadi Pasha, now a 40-year-old spinster, often used to drive around Hyderabad with her father in one or another of the old cars he thriftily uses, but she is seldom seen any more...