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SCENES IN INDIA.
CHAPTER IV.
WANDIWASH.— TIGER-SLAYER.-HINDOO FESTIVAL.
From Mahabalipuram, quitting the coast, wo pro-
ceeded towards Chingleput, crossed the Paliar river,
and halted at Outramalore. We left this miserable
town early in the afternoon, and stopped for the night
at Wandiwash. This place is remarkable, at least to
Europeans, for a severe battle which was fought
between the English and French troops, the former
commanded by Colonel Coote, the latter by Monsieur
de Lally, certainly one of the most accomplished officers
of his time. In September 1759, in an attack upon
Wandiwash, the British had been repulsed; but in the
November of the same year, it was taken by Colonel
Coote with very little loss. During the January fol-
lowing, that decisive battle just mentioned was fought
here between the British and French armies, com-
manded by the officers above named, when the latter
were defeated with a prodigious number killed, and
were soon after obliged to abandon the country. The
whole weight of the action fell upon the Europeans in
either army : the sepoys merely looked on. After the
conflict had been decided, the native commanders
highly complimented Colonel Coote upon so signal a
SCENES IN INDIA.
CHAPTER IV.
WANDIWASH.— TIGER-SLAYER.-HINDOO FESTIVAL.
From Mahabalipuram, quitting the coast, wo pro-
ceeded towards Chingleput, crossed the Paliar river,
and halted at Outramalore. We left this miserable
town early in the afternoon, and stopped for the night
at Wandiwash. This place is remarkable, at least to
Europeans, for a severe battle which was fought
between the English and French troops, the former
commanded by Colonel Coote, the latter by Monsieur
de Lally, certainly one of the most accomplished officers
of his time. In September 1759, in an attack upon
Wandiwash, the British had been repulsed; but in the
November of the same year, it was taken by Colonel
Coote with very little loss. During the January fol-
lowing, that decisive battle just mentioned was fought
here between the British and French armies, com-
manded by the officers above named, when the latter
were defeated with a prodigious number killed, and
were soon after obliged to abandon the country. The
whole weight of the action fell upon the Europeans in
either army : the sepoys merely looked on. After the
conflict had been decided, the native commanders
highly complimented Colonel Coote upon so signal a