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510 INDEX Triple Alliance formed by England, Holland, and Sweden against France in 1668, 37-38 Turkmantchai, treaty of, 396-397 Turks dominate the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf in the early part of the sixteenth century, 5-6 U Umbeyla campaign, 431-432 Utrecht, peace of, in 1713, 41 Vandewash, Fort of, taken by the Eng- lish, 144-145 Venice, rise of, as a trade centre, 4 Verelst, on the commerce of Bengal, 178 Succeeds Lord Clive, 219 Versailles, Peace of, 155 Voltaire, leader of the anti-colonial party in France, 151 W Walpole, ministry of, 91 Walpole, Spencer, citation from, 493 Watson, Admiral, 166 Wellesley, Arthur, 310-311 Maratha campaigns of, 327 Wellesley, Lord, Governor-General, lands at Madras, 306 Treaty of, with the Nizam, 309 Conquest of Mysore by, 310 System of subsidiary treaties of, 316 Political system of, 323 Offers to resign, 324 Policy of, 331-334, 428 Result of the rule of, 334-336, 339-340 Critical estimate of the administration of, 340-342 Whig Ministry displaced in 1841, 403 Yakub Khan becomes Amir of Afghan- istan, 440