Black Hole of Calcutta
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black-hole-of-calcutta-219-3046085
title:
Black Hole of Calcutta
text:
The Black Hole of Calcutta was a dungeon in Fort William, Calcutta, measuring 14 by 18 feet, in which troops of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, held British prisoners of war on the night of 20 June 1756. John Zephaniah Holwell, one of the British prisoners and an employee of the East India Company, said that, after the fall of Fort William, the surviving British soldiers, Indian sepoys, and Indian civilians were imprisoned overnight in conditions so cramped that many people died from suffo
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description:
Dungeon in Fort William, Calcutta
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hole_of_Calcutta
date created:
2002-03-10T20:13:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T13:31:36Z
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13
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