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Holwell, John Zephaniah. INDIA TRACTS… Important Facts Regarding the East-India Company’s Affairs in Bengal, from the Years 1752 to 1760… A Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English Gentlemen Who Were Suffocated in the Black Hole in Fort William, at Calcutta, June 1756… Illustrated with a Frontispiece, Representing the Monument Erected in Memory of the Sufferers… The Second Edition, Revised and Corrected, with Addition
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London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, 1764. 4to. viii, 286 pp. Illustrated with a large folding copper engraved frontispiece. Cont. calf, a bit rubbed, minor chips at extremities of spine, red morocco spine label.
Holwell (1711–1798) was Governor of Bengal and a surgeon for the East India Company. This is his account of the ″Black Hole″ where 123 of 146 prisoners perished overnight (though later historians dispute those numbers).
| Author | Holwell, John Zephaniah |
|---|---|
| Title | INDIA TRACTS… Important Facts Regarding the East-India Company's Affairs in Bengal, from the Years 1752 to 1760… A Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English Gentlemen Who Were Suffocated in the Black Hole in Fort William, at Calcutta, June 1756… Illustrated with a Frontispiece, Representing the Monument Erected in Memory of the Sufferers… The Second Edition, Revised and Corrected, with Additions. |
| Year of Publication | 1764 |
| Publisher | Printed for T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt |
