[[13]: Evidently the Parish Church of St. Louis. Eyre Coote tells us the French had four guns mounted on its roof.]
[[14]: In early accounts of India the Muhammadans are always called Moors; the Hindus, Gentoos or Gentiles. The Topasses were Portuguese half-castes, generally employed, even by native princes, as gunners.]
[[15]: Captain Broome says there were fifty European ladies in the Fort. The French accounts say they all retired, previous to the siege, to Chinsurah and Serampore.]
[[16]: Captain, afterwards Sir, Eyre Coote.]
[[17]: The fullest account is one by Renault, dated October 26, 1758.]
[[18]: The only one, excepting the battle of Biderra, between the English and Dutch.]
[[19]: Governor of Pondicherry and President of the Superior Council.]
[[20]: Eyre Coote, in his "Journal," mentions an old ditch, which surrounded the settlement.]
[[21]: One hundred toises, or 600 feet; but Eyre Coote says 330 yards, the difference probably due to the measurement excluding or including the outworks.]
[[22]: Tanks, or artificial ponds, in Bengal are often of great size. I have seen some a quarter of a mile long.]