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chieftain of Ramporey and fome clamant on his title. General 

 Abeycrombie commanded in thofe parts. On November 25th, a 

 bloody adtion took place ; our whole line was fet in motion : 

 the charge of the enemy was mod daring and gallant ; it could 

 not be furpaffed ; both lines met and intermingled ; the bay- 

 onet prevaled, and our army purfued the enemy acrofs the 

 Doojure Millach. The Rohillas were twenty-five thoufand in 

 number : the charge of the enemy was peculiarly fingular ; 

 they formed in a line infinitely beyond the extent of ours, in 

 deep wedges, fuppofed to be fifty deep : when both lines came 

 within about five hundred yards, Golaum's people fcattered 

 individually, approached in that extraordinary manner, and 

 contefted the point with our bayonets : they appeared to defxHfe 

 our mufquetry, and upon every difcharge of artillery embraced 

 the ground, initantly rifing and advancing to the charge. Their 

 arms were fpears, match-locks, and fwords, which latter they 

 employed with deftru6tive efFe6t; and their attack, as by uni- 

 verfal confent, was called the Highland charge. The flaughter 

 on both fides was dreadful ; that of the EngliJJj moft uncom- 

 mon : befides privates we loft one colonel, one major, two cap- 

 tains, and nine lieutenants, and had eleven officers wounded ; 

 a proportion far beyond what ever w^as known in engagements 

 with undifciplined favages *. 



Canoge is at prelent a middle fized town on the weit fide of Can-oge. 

 the Ganges^ in Lat. 27' 3', and in the great Naboblliip of Oude^ 

 feated at the jun6tion with the Calini or Callynuddi. The city 

 may have been the Calinlpaxa of Pliny. It is a place of great 



* Calcutta Gazette. — Golaum was one of the chieftains. 



Z 2, reputed 



