Indian troops captuing the British

The Black Hole of Calcutta . . .

Wasn't that earlier than 19th century?

It was: 1756

By the by, that incident took place in the 18th century, not the 19th. You are perhaps equating this incident with the Sepoy Mutiny, which took place in 1857.

A review of the alleged incident of the Black Hole of Calcutta

A very, very brief account of the Sepoy Mutiny

Yes, Walter, i was typing my last post as you were responding. 1756 it was.

The correct answer is indeed Black Hole of Calcutta.
Thank you for all of your help.

Black Hole of Calcutta.....very good little Restaurant, just around the back from Spitalfields High Street. Wonderful Scarlet Flock Wallpaper and Citar Music wafting from the seventies sound system.
All you can eat "Buffet Lunch" for £4.50 when I was there, but the Lager was incredibly overpriced.

Spitalfields, from Hospital Fields, from French Hospital Fields. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, French Protestants fled, mostly north. They ended up in Holland, from which many moved east to Prussia, and others across the Narrow Seas to England. In gratitude to their new homeland, many pooled their not inconsiderable resources, and formed an artillery battalion, which joined William of Orange in the Low Countries during the Nine Years War. Again using the wealth they so readily accumulated in England through their skill and hard work, they erected a hospital for the convalescence of their wounded, and as a home for their disabled soldiers with no other resort. As the children grew up to become born and bred Englishmen, the community moved on, the hospital was eventually abandoned and finally demolished. But the once again open fields where it had stood were ever after known as French Hospital Fields.

You sound so convincing Set, that I'm going to take your word for it, as I cant be arsed to Google it, and my dog is nagging me to take her for a walk.

But I will check when I get back....rest assured.

Nah, on second thoughts, it sounds OK to me.

I once moonlighted transcribing the manuscripts which a man who had married into a family descended from French protestants had assembled for a "family tree" which he did not live to complete. The documents were fascinating, including manuscript journals more than one hundred years old, and copies of testamenary documents hundreds of years old. The story of the French Hospital Fields was supplied by a young researcher he hired in the 1950's to go to England and France. That is my source, and although i acknowledge that it may be disproven, i then considered her information to be correct, and have not since seen anything contradictory, although i've not made any particular effort to check it out.

A brief search was sufficient to give my contention the sort of dubious underpinning which i do not doubt would pass muster at The Daily Telegraph:



Given that this more than passes muster by contemporary journalistic standards, i intend to contact a soliciter if anyone attempts to contradict me. And what could be more convincing than Straight to Hell: A Hellblazer Site?