Beatson, Alexander: A view of the origin and conducts of the war with Tippoo Sultaun: comprising a narrative of the operations of the army under the command of Lieutenant George Harris, and of the Siege of Seringapatam (London, 1800)

OF THE WAR WITH TIPPOO SULTAUN.
same month, and took post at Sedapoor and Sedaseer on the ed
of March, for the protection of large supplies of grain and other
articles, which had been collected at Verajunderpet, in the district
of Coorga. The Bombay troops were ordered to occupy those
positions until the approach of the Madras army towards Seringa-
patam, when the junction of both armies might be effected, accord-
ing to the plan, which had been previously concerted.
The army of Madras, under the command of Lieutenant-general
George Harris, had assembled at Vellore in the month of January;
but, owing to delays which were unavoidable in providing so large
an equipment, it did not make its first movement towards Mysore
until the nth of February, On the 28th of the same month it
encamped at Carimungalum. The Nizam's contingent, consisting
of above 6000 of the Company's troops subsidized by his Highness;
about the same number of his own infantry, including a proportion
of Peron's, the late French corps, now commanded by British
officers ; and a large body of cavalry had joined the army on the
18th. This force, under the general command ofMeer Allum
Behauder, had marched from Hyderabad at the time appointed,
and by the route determined on, by the Governor-general ; and
actually arrived in the vicinity of Chittoor, in a state of preparation
for the held, before General Harris was ready to proceed on his
march from Vellore. This early proof of the beneficial effects
which the Company derived from the recent improvement of the
alliance with the court of Hyderabad, was viewed by the Governor-
general with the greatest satisfaction.
The sepoys of the late French corps, were taller and stouter?
in general, than those in the Company's battalions on the coast.