HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
hood of Madras in the end of De- 
cember. 
While these events passed on the 
east side of the peninsula, the Bri- 
‘tish army was by no means inac- 
tive on the west. Early in the 
season General Abercrombie de- 
tached a considerable force under 
Colonel Hartley, to the assistance 
of the Rajah of Travancore. By 
their united exertions the Myso- 
reans weresoon completely expelled 
from the country, and the Rajah 
re-established in his kingdom. Co- 
lonel Hartley having performed this 
important service, marched across 
to Coimbatore ; saved it, as we 
have seen, by introducing timely 
supplies, and then joined the grand 
army at Velladi. 
On the retreat of Colonel Floyd 
from Sattimungulum, and the e- 
vents which followed it, it was 
thought that much good might be 
done by a diversion upon the Ma- 
labar coast. General Abercrombie 
therefore embarked at Bombay with 
all the forces he could cullect, and 
arrived at Tellicherry on the 5th of 
December. His first enterprize 
was the siege of Cananore. Being 
joined by several neighbouring Ra- 
jahs with about 2000 Circars, who 
immediately on his appearance 
threw off the yoke of Tippoo, the 
line marched on the 14th to the at- 
tack of Cananore. The enemy 
were strongly posted on the heights 
in the neighbourhood of the town ; 
but after an obstinate engagement 
were obliged to fall back, and shut 
themselves up in it. The fort it- 
self was next morning vigorously 
assailed, the defences were taken, 
and the following day it surrendered 
at discretion. Balliapatam and 
Nurcarrow followed the example 
of Cananore, and $4 stand of 
colours, 68 pieces of cannon, and 
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5000 stand of arms, fell into the 
hands of the victors. When Ge- 
neral Meadows followed Tippoo 
into the Carnatic, he left Colonel 
Hartley at Palicaudchery, with or- 
ders to keep open the communica- 
tion between the eastern and wes- 
tern coasts. He at first found con- 
siderable difficulty in executing this 
commission, being opposed by an 
army of 10,000 men; yet he at last 
gained a signal victory over them, 
at the village of Terrannungary, 
and succeeded in completely rout- 
ing and dispersing them. He then 
commenced offensive operations, 
and reduced successively the forts 
of Trincalore, Turuckabad, Bar- 
ragurry and Cootaphore; so that 
in a few weeks the whole of the 
Malabar coast was cleared of the 
enemy, from the river Keway to 
Cape Comorin, 
Of the transactions of our allies 
during this season, we have little 
to relate. Always dilatory in their 
motions, and slow in fulfilling their 
engagements, they did not take the 
field till late in the year, and then 
performed nothing of consequence. 
The Mahratta army, assisted by a 
detachment of British troops from 
Bombay, invested Derwar, a strong 
fortification on the northern fron- 
tier of Mysore; which did not sur- 
render till the following summer, 
after an obstinate siege of many 
months, The Nizam’s troops took 
some inconsiderable forts on that 
part of Tippoo’s dominions which 
is opposite to his own. 
These were the principal occur- 
rences of the first campaign against 
Tippoo Sultan, which upon the 
whole was successful, though it did 
not answer the expectations of 
some sanguine politicians, who 
calculated on nothing less than a 
total annihilation of the power of 
Mysore. 
