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- 1764, March-Nov. (Creation)
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1 vol.
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Journal containing a day-to-day account with correspondence and despatches, March-Nov. 1764, relating to the siege of Madurah in the Presidency of Madras.
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Being unconnected to Bengal, it is not clear how the journal came to be amongst Clive’s papers. For most of the period covered by the volume Clive was on his last voyage to India. It may have been forwarded to him for informational purposes after his arrival. It was possibly compiled by one of the participants, Major Charles Campbell, for Robert Palk, the Governor of Madras. The narrative is incomplete in that the first page begins in the middle of a sentence yet there is no evidence of missing pages. Presumably it is a continuation of a previous volume which has not survived at least in this present archive.
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Preferred citation: CB5/2