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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle Foreign News August 23, 1765
Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
Advices from Bengal report that Major Munro's troops defeated the army of Shah Aulum and Sujah Dowlan in a general engagement at Buxar on 23 October, forcing the enemy to flee across the Carumnassa and leaving their camp and about 150 cannon behind.
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Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 99.0% The length-weighted average confidence across the OCR lines — the mean of exactly the per-line scores whose tails the two figures below report. Typical is 99%.
- Illegible ink
- 0.0% Text sitting in OCR-detected lines that scored below 80% confidence — very shaky reads. Weighted by line length, so one long bad line counts for more than a short one.
- Uncertain ink
- 0.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 96.44% How closely the served text matches the raw OCR of the same boxes, letter by letter, after collapsing spacing and case. This measures agreement, not correctness: the OCR is often wrong and the extractor corrects it, so 100% does not mean perfect, and a low figure usually means poor scan text was rewritten rather than that text was lost (length vs source shows loss).
- Length vs source
- 99.06% Below 100% means text was dropped from the OCR; above means text was added to make it read.
Assembled by the extraction model
— whether the stitched-together text holds up; catches layout and segmentation errors, which the scores above cannot see
- Transcription confidence
- 97.0% (typical 96%) How cleanly the extractor could assemble what it was given. Low here with clean ink scores points at layout analysis — the characters were read correctly but grouped or ordered wrongly.
- Comprehension
- 90.0% Whether the piece reads coherently start to finish. Can stay high while transcription confidence drops, when only part of the component is affected.
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EAST-INDIA HOUSE, June 17, 1765.
The East-India Company, by their Ship Devonshire, arrived Yesterday off Dover, have received Advices from the President and Council in Bengal, dated the 26th of November last, that the Troops under the command of Major Munro having advanced towards the Army commanded by the King Shah Aulum, (late Shah Zadah) and Sujah Dowlan, Nabob of Owde, who waited with their whole Force, and a Number of Artillery, at Buxar, about 100 Miles beyond Patna, the Armies came to a general Engagement on the 23d of October, and the English Troops gained the most complete Victory possible. The Enemy fled across the Carumnassa with the utmost Precipitation, leaving their whole Camp standing, and about 150 Pieces of Cannon.
The East-India Company, by their Ship Devonshire, arrived Yesterday off Dover, have received Advices from the President and Council in Bengal, dated the 26th of November last, that the Troops under the command of Major Munro having advanced towards the Army commanded by the King Shah Aulum, (late Shah Zadah) and Sujah Dowlan, Nabob of Owde, who waited with their whole Force, and a Number of Artillery, at Buxar, about 100 Miles beyond Patna, the Armies came to a general Engagement on the 23d of October, and the English Troops gained the most complete Victory possible. The Enemy fled across the Carumnassa with the utmost Precipitation, leaving their whole Camp standing, and about 150 Pieces of Cannon.
What sub-type of article is it?
Military Campaign
Colonial Affairs
What keywords are associated?
Buxar Battle
Shah Aulum
Sujah Dowlan
East India Company Victory
What entities or persons were involved?
Major Munro
Shah Aulum
Sujah Dowlan
Where did it happen?
Buxar
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Buxar
Event Date
23d Of October
Key Persons
Major Munro
Shah Aulum
Sujah Dowlan
Outcome
enemy fled across the carumnassa leaving their camp and about 150 pieces of cannon.