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Hijiorical Chronicle, 



diftance into his country, be- 

 fore it was poffible for him to 

 give us the leaft obftru<ftion. 



* The forts of Eolar and 

 Oufcottah lay in our route to 

 Bangalore, and furrendered to 

 us without refinance ; but as 

 neither of them were in a ten 

 able condition, nor at that time 

 of any value to us, I left them 

 unocciipied,afterdilarming and 

 difmifling their fmall garrifons. 



' I arrived before Bangalore 

 on the 5th of March, and on 

 th<j 6th the engineers were em- 

 ployedinreconnoitringtheplace 

 both in the morning and even- 

 ing ; on their latter excurlion 

 Lieut. Col. Floyd, who tfcort- 

 td them with the whole caval- 

 ry, difcovered the rear of Tip- 

 poofs line of msrch, apparently 

 in great confufion, and unfor- 

 tunately fufFered himfelf to be 

 tempted, by the llattering prol- 

 peft of ftriking an important 

 blow, to deviate from the or- 

 ders he had received from me, 

 and to attack the enemy. His 

 fuccefs at firft was great, but 

 the length and ardour of the 

 purfuit threw his fquadrons in- 

 to great confufion. In this 

 ftate Ihey were charged by Tip- 

 poo's cavalry, and, being out ot 

 the reach of all fupport, they 

 were obliged to retire with 

 great precipitation, and with 

 the lofs of above 200 men and 

 near 300 horfes. Lieut. Col. 

 Floyd received a very fevere 

 wound in the face, from which, 

 however, I have the pleafure to 

 add that he is now perteflly 

 recovered. 



•The ill fucccfs of our ex- 

 ^miaation, the fear of lofing 

 Mme, «tfid many other circunx- 1 



ftances, of which the hopes oF 

 obtaining a fupply of forage 

 was not the leaft, indueed me 

 to determine immediately to - 

 attack the fort from the Pettah 

 fide. The Pettah was accord- 

 ingly affavilted and carried on 

 the morning of the 7th ; and 

 the fiege of the fort,.which was 

 rendered fingularly arduous, 

 not only by the fcarcity of fo- 

 rage, and firength of its works 

 and garrifon, but alfo by the 

 prefence of Tippoo and his 

 whole army, was happily termi- 

 natedby an affaulton the night 

 of the 2ift, in which the Killi- 

 dar, and a great number of his 

 garrifon, were put to the fword, 

 and our lofs, in proportion to 

 the nature of the enterprife, 

 was inconfiderable. I cannot^ 

 however, help exprefling, on 

 this occafion, my fincere re- 

 gret for the death of that brave 

 and valuable officer Lieut. Col. 

 Moorhoufc, who was killed at 

 the affault of the Pettah, on 

 the 7th of March. 



' I have not yet been able 

 to obtain correct lifts of the 

 ordnance, or of the diiferent 

 articles that were found in the 

 magazines of the place ; and 

 I can therefore only fay in ge- 

 neral, that there were upwards 

 ■of 100 fcrviceable pieces of ord- 

 nance, near 50 of which were 

 brafri, a largeqiiantity of grain, 

 and an immenfe depot of mili- 

 tary ftoves. 



« Although Tippoo approach- 

 ed our poiitinn, and even can- 

 nonaded the camp both on the 

 7tiiand i7tb, yctf'i thcfe occafi- 

 on s, and all others during the 

 lirge, he took his meafures witli' 

 fo much caiiticn as to put it effcC^ 



