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Note:  Do not rely on this information. It is very old.

Arcot

Arcot, the chief town of Arcot, is on the river Palar, 65 miles from Madras by railway. It was the residence of the nabobs of the Carnatic, and contains a palace and other monuments. Clive captured the fort in 1751 with a force of only 500 men, and this was his first military achievement.