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    The impeachment of Warren Hastings, the first governor-general of the Bengal Presidency in India, was attempted between 1787 and 1795 in the Parliament...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    2022). "Influence Without Impeachment: How the Impeach Earl Warren Movement Began, Faltered, But Avoided Irrelevance". Journal of Supreme Court History....
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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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    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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    Richard Brinsley Sheridan (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Stafford)
    charge of bribery. In 1787 Sheridan demanded the impeachment of Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General of India. His speech in the House of Commons...
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    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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    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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    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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    Trump had been impeached for the second time by the House of Representatives on January 13, 2021. The House adopted one article of impeachment against Trump:...
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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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    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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    debates over the East India Company, he was one of the managers of the Impeachment of Warren Hastings. In 1789, on inheriting the Rosslyn and Dysart estates...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    in impeachable activity both before and during his presidency, and talk of impeachment began before he took office. Grounds asserted for impeachment have...
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    political event of the decade came to pass in the form of the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, the Governor of Bengal until 1785, on charges of corruption and...
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