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	Negapatam - LoveToKnow 1911
		NEGAPATAM, a seaport of British India, in the Tanjore district of Madras, forming one municipality with Nagore, a port 3 m.
		Negapatam is the terminus of a branch of the South Indian railway, and contains large railway workshops.
		Negapatam was one of the earliest settlements of the Protuguese on the Coromandel coast.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Negapatam (0 words)

	Map of South India
		During their period of occupation the French struck rupees at Mazulipatam bearing a lotus symbol: a form of coin that was to be continued by the British from 1780 until 1795.
		Negapatam, on the Coromandel coast, lay some 20 miles south of the European settlement Karaikal, over 150 miles below Madras, but only 70 miles north of Jaffna on the island of ceylon.
		In 1657 the Dutch occupied Negapatam from the Portuguese and in 1676, when the Maratha prince Venkaji had established himself at Tanjore, the grant of Negapatam to the Dutch was confirmed.
	www.tranquebar.dk /indiamap.htm (0 words)

	Nagapattinam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1676, when the Maratha prince Venkaji had established himself at Tanjore, the grant of Negapatam to the Dutch was confirmed.
		It was taken by the English in 1781, and from 1799 to 1845 it was the headquarters of Tanjore district.
		Negapatam (Nagapattinam) 1507-1657, Paliacate (Pulicat) 1518-1619, Quilon (Coulão, Kollam) 1502-1661, Salsette Island 1534-1601, São Tomé de Meliapore (Saint Thomas of Mylapur) 1523-1662/1687-1749, Surat 1540-1612, Tuticorin (Thoothukudi) 1548-1658)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nagapattinam (691 words)

	Nagapattinam information - Search.com
		In 1676, when the Maratha prince Venkaji had established himself at Tanjore, the grant of Negapatam to the Dutch was confirmed.
		It was taken by the English in 1781, and from 1799 to 1845 it was the headquarters of Tanjore district.
		Negapatam (Nagapattinam) 1507-1657, Paliacate (Pulicat) 1518-1619, Quilon (Coulão, Kollam) 1502-1661, Salsette Island 1534-1601, São Tomé de Meliapore (Saint Thomas of Mylapur) 1523-1662/1687-1749, Surat 1540-1612, Tuticorin (Thoothukudi) 1548-1658)
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Nagapattinam (716 words)

	Second Mysore War
		Warren Hastings sent from Bengal Sir Eyre Coote, who, though repulsed at Chidambaram, defeated Hyder thrice successively in the battles of Porto Novo, Pollilur and Sholingarh, while Tippoo was forced to raise the siege of Wandiwash, and Vellore was provisioned.
		On the arrival of Lord Macartney as governor of Madras, the British fleet captured Negapatam, and forced Hyder Ali to confess that he could never ruin a power, which had command of the sea.
		He had sent his son Tippoo to the west coast, to seek the assistance of the French fleet, when his death took place suddenly at Chittur in December 1782.
	www.indhistory.com /mysore-war-2.html (210 words)

	Dutch India Coins
		"Porto Novo" pagodas of this type were struck at Pulicat, Negapatam and Madras.
		They got the minting rights from Tanjore and derived the design of their Negapatam fanams from those being struck at Tanjore.
		Although they bore the name of Negapatam they were intended principally for ceylon.
	www.tranquebar.dk /dutch.htm (0 words)

	c. South India. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		A successful invasion of Ceylon permitted assignment of Singhalese revenues to the Saiva great pagoda of Rajarajesvara, which Rajaraja I built at Tanjore, the masterpiece of baroque Dravidian architecture.
		He also endowed a Buddhist monastery built at Negapatam by a king of Srivijaya (Sumatra).
		Rule of Rajendra Choladeva, who had helped his father since 1002.
	www.bartleby.com /67/336.html (376 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1758 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		July 25 - French and Indian War: The island battery at Fortress Louisbourg is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
		August 3 - Battle of Negapatam - Off the coast of India, Admiral Pocock again engages d'Aché's French fleet, this time with more success.
		August 25 - Battle of Zorndorf - Frederick defeats the Russian army of Count Wilhelm Fermor near the Oder.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /1758 (538 words)

	HMS Resolution (Cook) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was captured by the Sphinx of de Suffren's squadron on June 9, 1782.
		After the action at Negapatam on 6 July 1782, Resolution was sent to Manila for wood, biscuit and rigging, and to enter any seaman she found there.
		She sailed on July 22, 1782 and was never seen again.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Resolution_(Cook) (657 words)

	BHC0448 : Battle of Negapatam, 6 July 1782
		All were furiously contested, both admirals being tenacious fighters, and at Negapatam the French 'Brilliant', lost 47 killed and 136 wounded.
		The captain of the 'Sévère', ordered his colours struck but his first lieutenant, refusing to accept this, forcibly shut him up in his cabin and rehoisted them.
		This painting is signed and dated 'D Serres 1786', and inscribed bottom left '3rd Action off Negapatam 6th July 1782'.
	www.nmm.ac.uk /mag/pages/mnuExplore/PaintingDetail.cfm?ID=BHC0448 (0 words)

	History : HMS Exeter : Type 42 Destroyers : Surface Fleet : Operations and Support : Royal Navy
		History remembers her for her contribution to fighting the French in 1702 off Newfoundland and on 22 March 1711 in the Mediterranean, 1st October at Quiberon Bay and in 1748 at the Siege of Pondicherry.
		The third Exeter was responsible for four Battle Honours in 1782 at Sadras, Providien, Negapatam and Trincomalee.
		She was a Third Rate of 64 guns and was burned on 12 February 1784 after being condemned as unseaworthy.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /server?show=nav.1644&outputFormat=print (479 words)

	negapatam
		The Battle of Negapatam, 1782, between the French and the English
		The French were seeking to take control of the British-held port of Negapatam on the eastern coast of India.
		There was no clear result but the British managed to force a French retreat.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1700_1799/coromandel/negapatam/negapatam.html (0 words)

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		Accordingly I went to Negapatam Post Office where I have received the same answer as the previous one.
		There the Post Office authorities said 'it is true' the money order has come; but we will not pay it to you till you prove by two witnesses that the money order is for you.
		They replied 'Get the receipt signed by the sender' and also a letter to me to the fact that the money order is to be paid to me. I herein enclose the receipt for your signature.
	home.intekom.com /southafricanhistoryonline/pages/sources/bhana/part01-A-12.htm (517 words)

	Dutch - Ceilon - Batavia - Half Stuiver
		The half Stuivers were known as "tammekasje" (Tambakasi in Sinhala) in Lanka.
		Codrington (page 139 36.) associates this coin with the tammekasje made in Negapatam in 1675.
		Jan Lingen disagrees with this view and supports Scholten's statement (page 152) that associates the 1675 Negapatam mintage with the Divided wreath type one Stiver coin.
	lakdiva.org /coins/dutch/1644_batavia_hst.html (649 words)

	1758
		July 25 - French and Indian War: The island battery at Fortress Louisbourg is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
		August 3 - Battle of Negapatam - Off the coast of India, Admiral Pocock again engages d'Aché's French fleet, this time with more success.
		August 25 - Battle of Zorndorf - Frederick defeats the Russian army of Count Wilhelm Fermor near the Oder.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/17/1758.htm (568 words)

	Dutch - Ceilon - Batavia - Half Stuiver
		The half Stuivers were known as "tammekasje" (Tambakasi in Sinhala) in Lanka.
		Codrington (page 139 36.) associates this coin with the tammekasje made in Negapatam in 1675.
		Jan Lingen disagrees with this view and supports Scholten's statement (page 152) that associates the 1675 Negapatam mintage with the Divided wreath type one Stiver coin.
	www.lakdiva.org /coins/dutch/1644_batavia_hst.html (649 words)

	Adi Puram > Festivals > EPrarthana.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The presiding deity of Srirangam temple, Sri Ranganath, is said to have accepted Andal as his wife when she grew up.
		The festival is observed with great eclat in the temples of Madurai, Sriviliiputtur, Tinnevelly, Vedaranyam, Negapatam, Jambukeswaram, Tiruvadi, Kumbakonam, Tiruvadaimarudhur, Mayavaram, Srivanjiyam and Tiruvannamalai.
		In the famous religious centre Chidambaram also, this Puram festival is observed not in the month Adi (July-August), but in the month Arpisi (November).
	www.eprarthana.com /festivals/fadipuram.asp (923 words)

	The Hindu : Going Dutch in the Archives
		Which is perhaps as it should be, for the Dutch were on the Coromandel Coast before the English.
		To ensure a steady supply of textiles to its eastern settlements, the Dutch first established their presence at Masulipatam in 1605, at Pulicat in 1610 and then at points north like Bimlipatam, before establishing a presence in Sadras and Negapatam (I'm using their spellings) in 1660 and in Cochin in 1663.
		The heyday of the Dutch on the coasts of the Coromandel and Malabar was in the 1670s, when its fleet aggressively ruled the seas.
	www.hinduonnet.com /mp/2001/12/24/stories/2001122400100300.htm (324 words)

	Fyrish Ross and Cromarty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The hill has a monument at the summit, constructed in 1783 by Sir Hector Munro of Novar who was a Commander of the British Forces in India.
		His most famous victory there was at Negapatam.
		When he returned home he provided work for destitute local people following the Highland Clearances and one of his projects was the construction of the monument on FYRISH which is a replica of the gates of Negapatam.
	www.realukmusic.co.uk /fyrish/fyrish.htm (153 words)

	HMS RESOLUTION AND CAPTAIN JAMES COOK TAHITI
		She was captured by the Sphinx of de Suffren's squadron on June 9, 1782.
		After the action at Negapatam on 6 July 1782, Resolution was sent to Manila for wood, biscuit and rigging, and to enter any seaman she found there.
		She sailed on July 22, 1782 and was never seen again.
	www.solarnavigator.net /history/hms_resolution.htm (602 words)

	Pearls: The Pearl Fisheries of the Persian Gulf
		In 1874, the boats were arranged in three divisions, the red, blue and green, with fifty boats in each; in 1879, and again in 1881, there were two divisions, the red and the blue; and likewise in 1880, in 1903 and in 1906 there were two, the red and the white divisions.
		Of the 318 boats employed in the 1905 fishery, 143 were from Kilakarai, seventy-four from Jaffna, thirty-five from Tuticorin, thirty-four from Paumben, nine from Manaar, six from Negapatam, five from Colombo, four each from Tondi and Kayalpatam, and one each from Devipatam, Adrapatam, Ammopatam, and Koddaipatam.
		The number of persons on each boat ranges from about twelve to sixty-five, with an average for the entire fleet of about thirty-five men per boat.
	www.farlang.com /gemstones/kunz_book_of_the_pearl/page_147 (445 words)

	History : HMS Monmouth : Type 23 Frigates : Surface Fleet : Operations and Support : Royal Navy
		The third Monmouth, a 64 gun Third Rate, was built at Plymouth between 1767 and 1772.
		She had a distinguished career gaining Battle Honours at Sadras, Providien, Negapatam and Trincomalee, before being fitted out as a prison ship at Portsmouth and renamed Captivity in 1796.
		The fourth Monmouth, another 64 gun Third Rate, was built on the Thames in 1796.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /server?show=nav.1386&outputFormat=print (542 words)

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