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Description: | A hand-coloured print of the parade ground at Hooghly, from the Fiebig Collection: Views of Calcutta and Surrounding Districts, taken by Frederick Fiebig in 1851. Hooghly or Hugli, a town upstream from Calcutta, was founded by the Portuguese in 1537, on the decay of the royal port of Satagaon. The Mughal Emperor Shahjahan (r.1628-58) sacked the town in 1633 with great loss to the Portuguese. By 1651 the East India Company set up a factory here. However, Calcutta, 25 miles away, was considered a superior position on the river and in 1690 Job Charnock succeeded in securing a site there for the subsequent English Factory and settlement. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Subjects: | Architecture War And Conflict | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Fiebig, Frederick | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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