Chandernagore
Americannoun
noun
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Middle-class people didn’t talk like that in pastoral Chandernagore, a small town in West Bengal, about 30 miles from Kolkata.
From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2022
The French in Chandernagore were not well prepared to stand a determined siege.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert
When the party had landed, Mrs. Merriman sent her jamadar up to the house to ask for the loan of a boat, or for shelter while one was being obtained from Chandernagore.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert
The most efficient part of his artillery was commanded by Monsieur Sinfray, who had under him some fifty Frenchmen from Chandernagore.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert
No line-of-battle ship has been seen in the Hooghly since Admiral Watson sailed up to Chandernagore just a hundred years ago;45 and certainly nothing in his fleet was equal to the Sanspareil.
From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Benson, Arthur Christopher
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