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- Ne zaman
- 20 Haz 1756
- Tür
- Katliam
- Ölümler
- 43
- Koordinatlar
- 22.57° N, 88.35° E
- Description
- Dungeon in Fort William, Calcutta
Black Hole of Calcutta
Dungeon used in 1756 to hold British and Indian prisoners
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…
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