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difgracc, that he determined on the fatal Jo ar, fee page 56, and 

 by that rite made the horrible expiation * ! 



By Major In the year 1 782, this city was taken by Mz]oy Ablngton. He 



■svas fuperfeded in his command by Colonel Humberjlon. The 

 environs were at that time in polTeffion of the enemy, under 

 Mugdum Sahebt a general of Ayder\. The youthful hero, 

 panting after glory, falUed forth with a handful of men, and 

 gave him a total defeat. Mugdum, feveral principal officers, 

 and between three and four hundred men, fell in the acStion. 

 His forces confifted of three thoufand foot and near a thoufand 

 horfe. " I am afliamed," fays the modeft vidtor, " to name 

 *' the number of my troops : they were io few, that you will 

 <' think me rafli to have ventured an acSlion. In confequence 

 " the enemy evacuated all the country, which belonged to the 

 " Zamorin, whom I reftored to his polTeffionst." 



Pakiani. Panianiis a town a few miles farther, where the Engl'ifb had 



once a fettlement. What makes it particularly remarkable is, 

 that the GbautSy oppofite to the place, have in them a gap, be- 

 tween fourteen and fifteen miles in length, and about fixteen 

 miles in width, occupied chiefly by foreil trees, and is defended 

 by the forts of Annamally and PaUcaudcberry, and others : It 

 being the important pafs to and from the Malabar coaft, and 

 of late years has been very frequently the feat of adlion. In 

 the campaign of 1783, the forts of Annamally and Palicaud- 

 r.herry were taken by that mofl able officer Colonel Fullar'toriy 

 who knew how to conquer, and knew how to record his aftions. 



* Life of Ayder AUi, i. in. \ Britifh India, iii. 832. 



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