Fort St. David
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Fort St David, now in ruins, was a British fort in the town of Cuddalore, a hundred miles south of Chennai on the Coromandel Coast of India. It is located near silver beach without any maintenance. It
Current condition of Fort St.David
Fort St. David, c. 1763, Francis Swaine
Elihu Yale
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Elihu Yale was a British colonial administrator. Born in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Yale lived in America only as a child, and spent the rest of his life in England, Wales, and India. He became
Fort St. David
…India. It is located near silver beach without any maintenance. It was named for the patron saint of Wales because the governor of Madras at the time, Elihu Yale, was Welsh. Fort St David, situated on the mouth of River Gadilam, has a memorable history. The region was under the domains of the Nayaks of Gingee…
Portrait by Enoch Seeman, 1717
Seaview of Fort St. George, the East India Company's headquarters in Madras, 1700s
The Government House at Fort St. George, seat of the Madras Presidency, where Yale would spend 29 years of his career
Warships attacking Fort St. George, Madras, along the Coromandel Coast. c. 1731 by Beorbe Lambert and Samuel Scott