Bandar Kota ( Machilipatnam Fort built by the Dutch, the French and the British )
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Original upload date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT
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BANDAR FORT ( MACHILIPATNAM FORT OF ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA ) : ARMOURY KNOWN AS PORT AND CUSTOMS OFFICE AND BELFRY
This fort is connected to the early struggles of the Dutch, the French and the
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British in India and contains some of the last memorials of the former greatness of Masulipatnam. As described by Capt. Albert Harvey in his Ten Years in India the fort had an Arsenal stores meant for supply to the troops in the Hyderabad and Nagpur subsidiary forces, as well as the whole of the Northern division of the Army. It contained necessaries of every description and was kept in first rate order by the commissariat and the many warrant officers attached to the establishment. The old hospital which is now roofless, is said to belong to the Nizam. The Armory which is used as Customs and Port-Office, consists of a quadrangular enclosure is divided into two open courts by a narrow block of buildings in the center. In 622 English factories at Bantam succeeded in establishing a trade at Masulipatnam. In 1628 the English were driven from Masulipatnam by the oppression of the native Governors, but five years later, the place was established as a English factory through a Firman of the Golkonda Rulers. The factories of English including at Masulipatnam were seized by the Mughals in 1689 and through a firman of Mughal General in Deccan they were permitted to resettle in the district including Masulipatnam within the territories of Golkonda Kingdom. For some time, between 1759-65 the fort was under French as part of Northern Sarkars and annexed to East India Company. The English built the fort at Masulipatnam, but the greater parts of the ramparts were entirely leveled. It was designed by Sir. Charles Trevelyan to level the walls, and layout boulevards and a people’s part, but this idea was frustrated by the Cyclone of 1864 that carried off some 30,000 souls and depopulated the fort.
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