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72 EASTERN HINDOOSTAN.
was deceived, and followed his enemy with indifcreet ardour.
Madab-row made a fudden return, and after feveral Ikilful ma-
nceuvres furrounded the whole army of his Veteran foe, vvho
he hirafelf was wounded, and with very great difficulty efcaped
into Seringapatam, with the lofs of his whole army, artillery,
baggage, and colors. Strange it is to fay, that he foon reftored
his forces : in India no prifoners are taken; the fugitives re-
turned to hkn, and he purchafed from his conquerors the arms
and horfes he had loft: as the Feudal rule of the Mahrattas
entitled them to the difpofal of any plunder they take. Madab-
row returned home with glory : foon after he feil into a de-
cline. He was brother to the unfortunate Naron-row; fee
p. 93 of the preceding volume. He forefaw his folly, gave the
moft falutary advice *, and dying, left him to the fad fate which
foon followed.
Lord Cornwallis marched towards Bangalore, where he had
left Colonel Duff as governor. He fent the numerous fick to
the hofpitals, and drew from thence the convalefcent, and fuch
ftores, ammunition, and artillery which were requifite for his
future defigns. He found that the Muglee pafs, which he had
afcended in his march from Madras, was too far to the north
to receive, with any fafety, the neceflary fupplies. He pre-
Poiicode Pass. ferred for that purpofe the Policode pafs, which is connected
with Banga/ore, is of eafy afcent, and leads through a fertile
country into the Carnatic, This and its feveral forts were now
in pofTeflion of the enemy. Their expulfion was neceffary, and
that was the object of his lordlhip's expedition.
* Hift. Bombay, p. 42.
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was deceived, and followed his enemy with indifcreet ardour.
Madab-row made a fudden return, and after feveral Ikilful ma-
nceuvres furrounded the whole army of his Veteran foe, vvho
he hirafelf was wounded, and with very great difficulty efcaped
into Seringapatam, with the lofs of his whole army, artillery,
baggage, and colors. Strange it is to fay, that he foon reftored
his forces : in India no prifoners are taken; the fugitives re-
turned to hkn, and he purchafed from his conquerors the arms
and horfes he had loft: as the Feudal rule of the Mahrattas
entitled them to the difpofal of any plunder they take. Madab-
row returned home with glory : foon after he feil into a de-
cline. He was brother to the unfortunate Naron-row; fee
p. 93 of the preceding volume. He forefaw his folly, gave the
moft falutary advice *, and dying, left him to the fad fate which
foon followed.
Lord Cornwallis marched towards Bangalore, where he had
left Colonel Duff as governor. He fent the numerous fick to
the hofpitals, and drew from thence the convalefcent, and fuch
ftores, ammunition, and artillery which were requifite for his
future defigns. He found that the Muglee pafs, which he had
afcended in his march from Madras, was too far to the north
to receive, with any fafety, the neceflary fupplies. He pre-
Poiicode Pass. ferred for that purpofe the Policode pafs, which is connected
with Banga/ore, is of eafy afcent, and leads through a fertile
country into the Carnatic, This and its feveral forts were now
in pofTeflion of the enemy. Their expulfion was neceffary, and
that was the object of his lordlhip's expedition.
* Hift. Bombay, p. 42.
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