HIST 386 Final - Places

Panipat

Battles fought in 1526 and 1556

Calcutta

home port of British (Bengal province)

Khajwa

battle fought in 1659

Madras

home port of British (M)

Bombay

Home port of British (B)

Bengal

very profitable province in North Eastern Mughal Empire

Taj Mahal

mughal construction began in 1632, built by Shah Jahan

Buxar

battle fought in 1764

Ganges River

near Awadh (made a fertile plain)

Yamuna River

this river and the Ganges river formed a fertile plain near Awadh

Plassey

battle in 1757, attempt to regain control of Calcutta

Fort William

Fort in West Bengal built by Mughals

Red Fort

significant piece of architecture built by the Mughals in Delhi, India

Maratha

Hindu Confederacy from Western India

Batavia, Indonesia

Home base of Dutch East Indies company

Paris

Capital of France

Versailles

palace 10 miles outside of paris

Punjab

region in northern India

Toulouse

site of Calas affair

Scotland

Philosophe, Hume was from

Rajasthan

Northern India, mainly Sikh

Madagascar

Known for Vanilla production, home base of Ostend company (Austria’s East India Company)

Bastille

prison in Paris, torn down in French Revolution

Varenne

Louis XVI fled there after revolution, captured and taken back to Paris where he was subsequently executed

Lyon

Producer of Silk

Mysore

new city in Southern India that changed hands, partnered up with French to defeat British

Saint Domingue

island colony of France where, major slave uprising there led to their independence

Hispaniola

collective name for Saint Domingue and Santo Domingo

Hyderabad

under control of Mughals from 1687 onward

Le Cap

major port city in Northern Province, burned to the ground in 1791 and again later on

Naples

Murat, brother in law of Napoleon rules there. Also major home base of Carbonari

Vendee

Counter-revolutionary war was led here due to enforcement of conscription

Grub Street

A street in England where a high number of struggling writers lived in the 18th century

Saint Marc

Major port city in Western Saint Domingue

Port au prince

Major port in South Province

Fort de Joux, Jura, France

where Louverture was imprisoned after being kidnapped from Saint Domingue

Waterloo

Napoleon tried to make a comeback here and failed

Toulon

Major siege took place here from August-December 1793, where Napoleon won fame. French vs. Anglo-Spanish forces