Editing Job Charnock (section)

==Chittagong expedition==
[[File:Sketch if Job Charnock's Cemetery, made before 1742 (p.196, March 1824).jpg|thumb|Sketch of Job Charnock's Cemetery, made before 1742 (p.196), March 1824<ref name="Gentleman1824">{{cite journal |title=Cathedral Church of St. John at Calcutta |journal=The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle|date=March 1824|volume=94|issue=1 |page=197 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mKVJAAAAYAAJ&q=the+gentlemans+magazine+1824|access-date=13 December 2017}}</ref>]]
[[File:Job Charnock's mausoleum.JPG|thumb|Job Charnock's mausoleum]]
By 1686 the secret committee of the court of directors in London had decided the Company should establish a fortified settlement in Bengal, to resist what they regarded as arbitrary exactions and violent harassment by Mughal officials:

{{blockquote|we have no remedy left, But either to desert our Trade or we must draw that sord [[James II of England|his Majesty]] hath intrusted us with to vindicate the Rights and Honour of the English Nation in India.<ref name="Bengal', 1889 p. 11">'The Early History of the English in Bengal', ''The Times'' (31 August 1889), p. 11 col. D.</ref>}}

Accordingly, in September 1688 the largest naval force the Company had ever assembled swept into the bay, with orders to blockade the ports and arrest the ships of the [[Aurangzeb|Grand Mughal]], and, if this did not bring satisfaction, to take the town of [[Chittagong]]. Beard being dead, authority devolved to a reluctant Charnock as commander-in-chief. As he anticipated, Chittagong proved remote and unviable. Sutanuti had in the meantime been razed by the nawab's troops, therefore the squadron sailed for Madras, arriving on 7 March 1689.