page_title: Job Charnock
section_title: Chittagong expedition
hierarchical_section_title: Job Charnock / Chittagong expedition
caption_attribution_description: English: Sketch if Job Charnock's Cemetery, made before 1742 (p.196, March 1824)
context_page_description: Job Charnock was an employee and administrator of the East India Company, and traditionally regarded as the founder of the city of Kolkata. However, his status as official founder is not universally accepted.
context_section_description: By 1686 the secret committee of the court of directors in London had decided the Company should establish a fortified settlement in Bengal, to resist what they regarded as arbitrary exactions and violent harassment by Mughal officials:
  we have no remedy left, But either to desert our Trade or we must draw that sord his Majesty hath intrusted us with to vindicate the Rights and Honour of the English Nation in India.
  Accordingly, in September 1688 the largest naval force the Company had ever assembled swept into the bay, with orders to blockade the ports and arrest the ships of the Grand Mughal, and, if this did not bring satisfaction, to take the town of Chittagong. Beard being dead, authority devolved to a reluctant Charnock as commander-in-chief. As he anticipated, Chittagong proved remote and unviable. Sutanuti had in the meantime been razed by the nawab's troops, therefore the squadron sailed for Madras, arriving on 7 March 1689.
caption: Sketch of Job Charnock's Cemetery, made before 1742 (p.196, March 1824[17]
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