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Book XIII.
PONDICHERRY.
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greater force than France had ever before sent to India, the English on the day of the surrender of Pondicherry, were in a condition to have given them battle, if they had chosen it, under their very walls.

Colonel Coote embarked on the 13th of March, leaving his regiment to follow; and with him, our narrative returns to the affairs of Bengal.


End of the Thirteenth Book,

AND OF THE

SECOND VOLUME.