[[43]: Remarks on board His Majesty's ship Tyger, March 15th.]
[[44]: His maternal grandfather was a cousin of Aliverdi Khan.]
[[45]: Malleson explains this by saying that De Terraneau was employed in the blocking up of the passage, but the story hardly needs contradiction.]
[[46]: This announcement seems superfluous after fighting had been going on for several days, but it simply shows the friction between the naval and military services.]
[[47]: Clive's journal for March 16th. Fort St. George, Sel. Com. Cons., 28th April, 1757.]
[[48]: Eyre Coote's journal.]
[[49]: The passages interpolated are on the authority of a MS. in the Orme Papers, entitled "News from Bengal.">[
[[50]: Accounts of this detail differ. One says it was stormed on the 21st, but if so the French would have been more on their guard, and would surely have strengthened the second battery in front of the Fort.]
[[51]: Lime plaster made extremely hard.]
[[52]: The Emperor at Delhi, who was supposed to be about to invade Bengal.]