[DOC] [TLE] Black Hole of Calcutta - Wikipedia [PAR] The Black Hole of Calcutta was a small dungeon in Fort William in Calcutta, India 
where troops of Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, held British prisoners of 
war after the Bengali army captured the fort on 20 June 1756. John Zephaniah 
Holwell, one of the British prisoners and an employee of the .... By nine o'clock 
several had died, and many more were delirious. [DOC] [TLE] The Black Hole of Calcutta | History Today [PAR] Richard Cavendish describes how British prisoners were held captive by the 
army of ... and the French were building up their competing commercial empires 
in India. ... who succeeded his grandfather in the capital of Murshidabad in 1756, 
when he ... The army arrived on June 16th, and began to move slowly through 
the... [DOC] [TLE] Black Hole of Calcutta - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] In June 1756, he marched on the Company's settlement with a sizable force of ... 
over the next eleven years, until 1766, when he left India, to set up the British 
East ... In the end, the Indian soldiers placed sixty four prisoners into tiny room .... 
the obelisk at the corner of Dalhousie Square, the reputed site of the Black Hole. [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Bengal in 1756-57, a selection of public and private ... [PAR] INDIAN RECORDS SERIES BENGAL IN 1756-1757 A SELECTION OF ... Letter 
from Mr. Collet at Cossimbazar to the Council at Fort William, 4 June, 1756 . ..... 
who died in 1732, but who had apparently handed over the manage- ment of his 
...... the British in sheltering the family of a man reputed to be under his 
displeasure. [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Prisoners of war in Britain, 1756 to 1815; a record of their ... [PAR] A good specimen of the sort of report which sent M. Vochez over to England is 
the ..... June 3rd. 1757. ' To all and Singular the King's officers Civil and Military, 
and to ..... Of these, says M. Dupin, 44 PRISONERS OF WAR IN BRITAIN There 
died in ...... In 1756 Captain Fraboulet of the French East India Com- pany's 
frigate... [DOC] [TLE] The History of British India, vol. 3 - Online Library of Liberty [PAR] 1708. powers of martial law, for the government of the troops which they ..... of the 
Company were doomed to imperial neglect, had not an accident, over which they 
had no ..... Madras had, during the space of 100 years, been the principal 
settlement of the ...... The outposts of Calcutta were attacked on the 18th of June, 
1756. [DOC] [TLE] Raitt Anecdotes - The Raitt Stuff [PAR] Brought up by his grandparents, who also died a short time later, John ... John 
Wilkie was a soldier in the Forfarshire Militia in the early 1800s. .... The British 
were unprepared for the ferocious Indian attack on 20 June 1756, and Fort ... 
Many of the British prisoners were kept overnight in the fort's bare, low-ceiling 
dungeon... [DOC] [TLE] GOVERNORS ISLAND HISTORICAL SUMMARY - National Park ... [PAR] Among these was the little island in the bay, which the Indians called ... reputed 
transvestitism; but these issues seem peripheral to this essay (mere ... died and 
presumably were buried somewhere on the island. ... In August the British army 
moved across to Long Island and, battling over hilly ...... dungeon-like Castle. [DOC] [TLE] Acadian History:Laguerne:Lawrence:Winslow: Acadian influences ... [PAR] King Louis XV died of smallpox at the Palace of Versailles. ... Le Loutre was to 
minister to the Indians as well as to the French posts at Cobequid and .... In June 
1755 Fort Beausjour was captured by British troops under Robert MONCKTON. 
... By March 1756 Le Guerne had managed to get some 500 Acadians across to 
le... [DOC] [TLE] Bermuda's History from 1800 to 1899 - Bermuda Online [PAR] Until then, they and British Army regulars based in Bermuda had incurred many 
.... in British ships and the importation into British West Indian colonies in British 
ships of ... Capt

Question: It was the Indian dungeon in which over 100 British soldiers reputedly perished in June 1756
Answer: the Black Hole of Calcutta