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EASTERN HINDOOSTAN.
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re have juft defcribed. He particularly vented his rage againft
our faithful ally the Nabob of Arcot, whofe battles we were
bound to fight as well as our own. This obliged Smith to relin-
quifh all his conquefts in order to defend his own country.
The war was purfued with various fuccefs. The hiftorian In 1768.
of Ayder, i. p. 153, fays that Smith, in 1768, penetrated as far
as, and took Oufcotta, and that he even attempted Bangalore.
Smith paid every reipecl: to Dionelli, the birth-place of Ayder,
whith the hero very politely acknowleged, by prefenting our
general with two beautiful horfes.
In the fame year we made an unfuccefsful attack on the fort
of Mukvaggle, not far from Colar, where we were repulfed
with lofs. Colonel Wood, who at this time commanded a part
of our army, was not difcouraged from attacking Ayder, who
was then on his march to prote£t this territory, and notwith-
ftanding the difparity of numbers gave him a bloody defeat;
after a conteft of fix hours the field was left covered with dead
bodies; our lofs amounted to above three hundred in killed
and wounded. Maderow and his Mahrattas were allies with us
in this war. Notwithftanding the fuccefTes we met, our gene-
ral paffed his time very uncomfortably. He was embarrafTed and
comptrolled by the advice of field deputies placed about him,
diviüons and diflenfions daily increafing among officers, and
by the foldiers, and even by the officers deferting to the populär
enemy; and, add to this, an overwhelming expence. Ayder,
perhaps fenfible of thefe evils, again gave our army the flip,
and with a body of chofen horfe appeared within feven miles of
Madras^ where he diclated a fhameful peace to the Prefidency, Shamef&i,
Vol. II. N at
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re have juft defcribed. He particularly vented his rage againft
our faithful ally the Nabob of Arcot, whofe battles we were
bound to fight as well as our own. This obliged Smith to relin-
quifh all his conquefts in order to defend his own country.
The war was purfued with various fuccefs. The hiftorian In 1768.
of Ayder, i. p. 153, fays that Smith, in 1768, penetrated as far
as, and took Oufcotta, and that he even attempted Bangalore.
Smith paid every reipecl: to Dionelli, the birth-place of Ayder,
whith the hero very politely acknowleged, by prefenting our
general with two beautiful horfes.
In the fame year we made an unfuccefsful attack on the fort
of Mukvaggle, not far from Colar, where we were repulfed
with lofs. Colonel Wood, who at this time commanded a part
of our army, was not difcouraged from attacking Ayder, who
was then on his march to prote£t this territory, and notwith-
ftanding the difparity of numbers gave him a bloody defeat;
after a conteft of fix hours the field was left covered with dead
bodies; our lofs amounted to above three hundred in killed
and wounded. Maderow and his Mahrattas were allies with us
in this war. Notwithftanding the fuccefTes we met, our gene-
ral paffed his time very uncomfortably. He was embarrafTed and
comptrolled by the advice of field deputies placed about him,
diviüons and diflenfions daily increafing among officers, and
by the foldiers, and even by the officers deferting to the populär
enemy; and, add to this, an overwhelming expence. Ayder,
perhaps fenfible of thefe evils, again gave our army the flip,
and with a body of chofen horfe appeared within feven miles of
Madras^ where he diclated a fhameful peace to the Prefidency, Shamef&i,
Vol. II. N at