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dard received the humiliating orders, but reje6led them \vith Under God- 



DARD. 



indignation, and continued his route, marked in every place 

 with glory and vi<5tory --•■. 



In January 1781, after the conqueft of BaJ]'ein, that able 

 officer afTembled his troops at f^izrabuvy and in order to make a 

 diverlion in favor of Madras, then in imminent danger, ad- 

 vanced to Campooly, and from thence to Candolab, which the 

 enemy had polTefTed themfelves of in great force, but they foon 

 were driven from their arduous ftation. It Ihould feem that Tul- 

 lingaitm had been rebuilt fince the laft expedition, for the Gene- 

 ral found it jufl burnt, and Poonab filled with combuftibles, 

 ready for the fame fate. He found an army of feventy thou- 

 fand horfe and foot, ready to oppofe his little body of fix thou- 

 fand ; yet fuch was the terror of the foe, that they again burnt 

 the town of Tullingaum. An Indian town is as foon rebuilt as 

 deftroyed; and every preparation was made for burning Poonab^ 

 by filling the houfes with ftraw, and removing the inhabitants 

 to the ftrong hold of Sattarab. Thus circumftanced, our Gene- 

 ral thought proper to retreat, in order to affifi:, with part of his 

 forces, his friends then befieged in I'ellicberry, by Sardar Khan, 

 a general of Ayder AllPs. This movement was condutfted with 

 fuch fecrecy and fkill, that the whole of the artillery and heavy 

 ftores reached the foot of the pafs in fafety, and without the 

 fmalleft interruption from the enemy, who were alionifhed, on 



* See the hiftory of this difgraceful bufinefs, in a little 4to. pamphlet, pubiiflied at Breck- 

 nock in 1794, entitled, The Expedition of Tullingaum, &c. and the War in Afia, i. 

 p. p. II. 65. 69. 



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