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1876 CE · disaster

The Great Backerganj cyclone struck the Bengal delta in British India, causing catastrophic loss…

The Great Backerganj cyclone struck the Bengal delta in British India, causing catastrophic loss of life.

The Great Backerganj cyclone struck the Bengal delta in British India, causing catastrophic loss…: Nineteenth-century illustration of cyclone conditions in Calcutta in 1876. The Great Backerganj cyclone struck elsewhere in the Bengal delta that year; this is regional context, not an exact-event image. — Nineteenth-century illustration of cyclone conditions in Calcutta in 1876. The Great Backerganj cyclone struck elsewhere in the Bengal delta that year; this is regional context, not an exact-event image. · Credit: Cassell's Illustrated History of India (1879); historical engraver unrecorded · License: Public domain

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