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Edmund Burke: There were two hundred, or thereabouts, of the Company's servants, or their dependants, slaughtered at Patna with every…

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There were two hundred, or thereabouts, of the Company's servants, or their dependants, slaughtered at Patna with every circumstance of the most abominable cruelty.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke describes the brutal slaughter of British subjects at Patna, emphasizing the cruelty involved.

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