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to its relief, but on their way they heard it was taken. They 

 continued fometimes moving towards our army, fometimes 

 ■flackening their- pace ; they feemed to be as Admiral Hawke 

 defcribed the French to have been previous to the adion of 

 November 20th, " afraid to fight, and afhamed to run away." 

 At length they encamped near Broderab, a town and ftrong 

 -fortrefs, the capital and ufual refidence of Futty Si}7g, fixty-nine 

 BritiJJj miles north-eaft of Surat ; their intent was to diftrefs 

 Goddard, by depriving him of forage and provifion : this he 

 -ended by a decifive ftroke on ^pril 3d ; he marched, at two in 

 the morning, with a chofen body and fome artillery, and after 

 going feven miles entered the very centre of their camp^'undif- 

 covered, and began his attack. After a vain and confufed oppo- 

 lition they fled to a neighboring ground, where he renewed the 

 charge, and the whole army, of forty thoufand men, left him 

 -mafter of the whole country. Of his little force he had not 

 more than twenty killed and wounded. Thus was the difgrace 

 of Worgaum moft efFedtually done away. The general returned 

 towards Bombay \ and on December nth, in the fame year, took 

 BaJJein^ the ifle of Salcette, and other places. In 1781, he made 

 an expedition towards Poonab, and trod the fame fteps nearly 

 with thofe taken by Egerton, and his field committee, in 1778, 

 fee p. 95 of my firft volume, oppofed by an army of feventy 

 thoufond men. He was obliged to retreat, but with fuch judg- 

 ment, and with fo little lofs, as to aftonifli the enemy, who, 

 after being frequently repulfed with immenfe flaughter, left 

 him to purfue his march luimolefted. 

 LiM.iTH OF -H£ This celebrated march is eftimated by the author ofxhcJVars 



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