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his foundation in 1693 after 37 years of hard service in the exhausting climate of Bengal.

The annals of the next century are crowded with the


Fig. 87. Lord Clive

names of men so famous that their achievements need not be recapitulated, such as Lord Clive, Warren Hastings, the first Chief Justice of Bengal, Sir Elijah Impey