Pondicherry
the chief of the settlements in India; on the Cor French settleme city; It has handsome streets, city; is divided into two parts by a canal, White (European) town being next the sea. omandel coast; 53 miles S. W. of Madras (1917) a government house, a college, a lighthouse, and cotton mills, besides native French colony of Pondicherry has an area of 115 square miles. Pop. (1917) dyeing establishments.' Pop. 47,321. Exports chiefly oil seeds. The sessions in India. The French first settled here in 1674. The Dutch took the 166,793. The governor of Pondicherry is governor-general of the French pos siege. Eyre Coote, however, took it in selves of it, but it was a third time restored to the French in 1816. 1763. It was once more taken by the English under Sir Hector Monro in 1778, and once more given back in 1783. In 1793 the English again repossessed them- selves of it, but it was a third time re- stored to the French in 1816. a Polish general; born in Warsaw, Po- land, in 1763, and when young entered PONIATOWSKI, JOSEPH, PRINCE, 1793 the English again repossessed thembesieged Pondicherry for town in 1693, but restored it to the French in 1697. In 1748 Admiral Bos months, but was compelled to raise the