When Bourdonnais was forced to leave India in October after the devastation of his squadron by a cyclone Dupleix reneged on the agreement.

When the city of Madras capitulated to the French following the Battle of Madras in 1746, Dupleix opposed the restoration of the town to the British, thus violating the treaty signed by La Bourdonnais.

When La Bourdonnais died penniless in 1840, George Walker arranged to have him buried in London's Kensal Green Cemetery, near where his old rival McDonnell is buried.

When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

When he rolled on the left side, propping on his left elbow, Matsuo seized his hair and pulled him back over.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

When offered a morsel it glanced right and left and winced, obviously frightened and expecting a kick, but too hungry not to snatch the tidbit.

When the detective left, Andrus phoned his secretary to cancel his work and to advise the network to get a substitute director for his current project.

When more than two figures are separated by subtraction symbols the subtraction must be carried out from the left to right if the result is to be correct.

When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

When Costaggini had used up all the sketches thirty-six feet of empty frieze were left over.

When consciousness deserts the sleeping body and the wakeful world, it continues in the myriad progressions of the ever-present past and future, in a life as vibrant and real as the one left when the body tired and required sleep.

When stacking wine on its side in a bin, care should always be taken to be sure there is no air bubble left next to the cork.

When he left, she knew she would never see him again.

However, years of activism, and fighting for the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War have left him disillusioned .</ br > When the plague epidemic is virtually over, Tarrou becomes one of its last victims, but puts up a heroic struggle before dying.

When Charles left Germany a few weeks later, Albert renewed his depredations in Franconia.

When the Greeks left without killing Ajax, despite their sacrifices Athena became so angry that she persuaded Zeus to send a storm that sank many of their ships.

When Ajax finally left Troy, Athena hit his ship with a thunderbolt, but Ajax still survived, managing to cling onto a rock.

When the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931, he fled and left Spain, but did not abdicate the throne.

When the left ventricle contracts to force blood into the aorta, the aorta expands.

When so used it would generally be fastened on the right shoulder, and would partially envelop the chest as it passed obliquely round in front and behind to be attached to the shield under the left arm.

When Jackson returned briefly to England in 1889 to marry, Housman was not invited to the wedding and knew nothing about it until the couple had left the country.

When photographed, Capone hid the scarred left side of his face saying the injuries were war wounds.

When he was about 18 years old, his parents died and left him with the care of his unmarried sister.

When Eadgils ' mound ( to the left in the photo ) was excavated in 1874, the finds supported Beowulf and the sagas.

When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

When two of the founders of that society, Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, moved to India at the end of that year, he was constituted as the President of the American body.

When India became part of the British Empire, there was a break in tradition, and Hindu and Islamic law were supplanted by the common law.

When the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) was founded in 1602, some traders in Amsterdam did not agree with its monopolistic politics.

Lord Mountbatten with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the first Prime Minister of sovereign India in Government House, Lady Mountbatten standing to their left. When India and Pakistan attained independence on 15 August 1947, Mountbatten remained in New Delhi for ten months, serving as India's first governor general until June 1948.

When the Government of India was transferred from the Company to the Crown, Canning became the first viceroy of India.

When the First World War broke out in August 1914, sympathy in India was divided.

When the elections following the introduction of provincial autonomy ( under the government of India act 1935 ) brought the Congress party to power in a majority of the provinces, Nehru's popularity and power was unmatched.

When World war II started, Viceroy Linlithgow had unilaterally declared India a belligerent on the side of the Britain, without consulting the elected Indian representatives.

When the Japanese carried their attack through Burma ( now Myanmar ) to the borders of India in the spring of 1942, the British government, faced by this new military threat, decided to make some overtures to India, as Nehru had originally desired.

The editorial states, ' When Washington finally turned its attention to India, it honored the ambassador's pledge, loaded 60 U. S. planes with $ 5, 000, 000 worth of automatic weapons, heavy mortars and land mines.

When Elizabeth II made a state visit to India marking the 50th anniversary of Independence in 1997, many Indians in India and Britain including several MPs demanded the return of the diamond.

When his grandfather died at the age of 104 in July 2004, Muralitharan returned home from a tour of India to attend his funeral.

When British India became independent after the Second World War its Muslim inhabitants formed their own state consisting of two non-contiguous territorial entities: East and West Pakistan.

When Ugyen Wangchuck died in 1926, his son Jigme Wangchuck became the next ruler, and when India gained independence in 1947, the new Indian Government recognized Bhutan as an independent country.

When British rule over India ended in 1947, so too did Britain's association with Bhutan.

When Mary was ten years old, her brother Edward Braddon left for India and later Australia, where he became Premier of Tasmania.

When the Portuguese king Manuel I of Portugal decided to appoint the first governor and viceroy of Portuguese India in 1505, Vasco da Gama was conspicuously overlooked, and the post given to D. Francisco de Almeida.

When Demetrius advanced far into India one of his generals, Eucratides, made himself king of Bactria, and soon in every province there arose new usurpers, who proclaimed themselves kings and fought against each other.

When asked in Calcutta whether he envisioned a Maratha-type of government for Free India, Tilak replied that the Maratha-dominated governments of 17th and 18th centuries were outmoded in the 20th century, and he wanted a genuine federal system for Free India where every religion and race was an equal partner.