The impeachment of Warren Hastings, the first governor-general of the Bengal Presidency, was attempted between 1787 and 1795 in the Parliament of Great...
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Warren Hastings FRS (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818) was a British colonial administrator, who served as the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort...
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Edmund Burke (redirect from All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing)
is remembered for his support for Catholic emancipation, the impeachment of Warren Hastings from the East India Company, and his staunch opposition to the...
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Philip Francis (politician) (category Members of Parliament for the Isle of Wight)
of the Letters of Junius, and the chief antagonist of Warren Hastings. His accusations against the latter led to the impeachment of Warren Hastings and...
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withdrawal date of 31 October 2019). Impeachment in the Thirteen Colonies Impeachment of Warren Hastings Impeachment of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford Parliamentary...
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First Rohilla War (category History of Uttar Pradesh)
the infant son of Muhammad Ali Khan. The war became a matter of Westminster politics during the Impeachment of Warren Hastings. Charges of destroying a...
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president of the United States, was impeached for the second time on January 13, 2021, one week before his term expired. It was the fourth impeachment of a U...
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impeachment of President Donald Trump occurred on December 18, 2019. On that date, the House of Representatives adopted two articles of impeachment against...
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signed a motion for the impeachment of Tony Blair, but this was unsuccessful. The British Government is answerable to the House of Commons. However, neither...
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Independence and vigorously pursued impeachment of Warren Hastings, the Governor-General of British India, for corruption and abuse of power. For these actions,...
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members of the United States House of Representatives vote to impeach, the impeachment is referred to the United States Senate for an impeachment trial...
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allegations which led to the impeachment of Warren Hastings (5 August 1775) Nian Gengyao, Chinese military commander of the Qing dynasty (13 January 1726)...
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John Burgoyne (category British Army personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession)
in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings. During the interwar years Burgoyne devoted much attention to art and drama (his first play, The Maid of the Oaks...
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most dramatic political controversies, the impeachment and trial of Warren Hastings, the Governor-General of Bengal from 1774 to 1784. amazon.com v t e...
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Company rule in India (redirect from British conquest of India)
also shaped by the attempted Impeachment of Warren Hastings; the trial, whose proceedings began in 1788, ended with Hastings' acquittal, in 1795. Although...
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impeachment process against him to an official close two weeks later. Nixon was the first U.S. president to be the subject of an official impeachment...
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2022). "Influence Without Impeachment: How the Impeach Earl Warren Movement Began, Faltered, But Avoided Irrelevance". Journal of Supreme Court History....
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Richard Burke Jr. (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
Malton, North Yorkshire over the failure to convict Warren Hastings in a parliamentary impeachment. Richard was elected in succession to his father, but...
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Efforts to impeach Andrew Johnson Impeachment of Andrew Johnson Efforts to impeach Bill Clinton Impeachment inquiry against Bill Clinton Impeachment of Bill...
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Harris, 99. Quoted in Harris, 99. Edmund Burke, “Speeches on the Impeachment of Warren Hastings,” in Isaac Kramnick ed, The Portable Edmund Burke (New York:...
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Elijah Impey (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
subjected to impeachment, along with Warren Hastings, for their conduct of the case. He was accused by Macaulay of conspiring with Hastings to commit a...
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Younger. Shortly before his death in office he had opposed the impeachment of Warren Hastings. Townsend died at his estate, Bruce Castle in Tottenham, on...
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Maharaja Nandakumar (redirect from Nuncomar (Maharaja Nandakumar of Bengal))
of Warren Hastings from the post. In 1773, when Hastings was reinstated as governor-general of Bengal, Nandakumar brought accusations against him of accepting...
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Ewan Law (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for constituencies in Wiltshire)
spoke against the Impeachment of Warren Hastings (his brother Edward Law was senior counsel for Hastings' defence), believing Hastings to be "honest and...
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Bengal Presidency (redirect from Presidency of Bengal)
replace it with crown rule. Warren Hastings, governor of Bengal, was censured for the abuses of the company. Ironically, Hastings had set about to reform...
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of efforts to impeach vice presidents of the United States Efforts to impeach Dick Cheney Impeachment of Andrew Johnson Impeachment of Bill Clinton First...
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William Byam Martin (category Articles with topics of unclear notability from February 2020)
2019. Burke, Edmund (2016). Speech in General 8th Day, Saturday June 14th, Impeachment of Warren Hastings. Delphi Classics. ISBN 9781786560339. v t e...
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Spencer Perceval (redirect from Premiership of Spencer Perceval)
threat of invasion by France and served with them until 1803. Perceval wrote anonymous pamphlets in favour of the impeachment of Warren Hastings, and in...
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tyranny of the Crown. The last impeachment trials were the impeachment of Warren Hastings from 1788 to 1795 and the impeachment of Viscount Melville in 1806...
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hope of impeaching Hastings in 1780. Hastings resigned in 1785 and was later accused of committing a judicial murder of Nanda Kumar. Impeachment proceedings...
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