Cassell’s Illustrated History of India

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The 36th and 52nd Foot composed the first of these under the command of Major Skelly of the 74th Highlanders which along with the t st and 3rd Native Brigades formed the left wing of the army under Colonel James Stuart of the 72nd Highlanders; the second brigade cosisted of the 71st and 72nd Highland Regiments and the ist European Battalion of the Company. [...] My time has been partly employed in attending to several important points of the civil business of this presidency ; but principally in acquiring minute information respecting the condition of the troops of the magazines of provisions and of the nature of the different passes that lead to the Mysore country ; and after the most deliberate sieges of Oussore and Bangalore unless Tippoo should r [...] Stealing along the covered way to the end of the works the troops suddenly emerged at a rush and with ringing cheers to the assault ; and the ladders of the forlorn hope were reared against the wall before the enemy knew their danger. [...] 299 striking between the good sense of our generals on horseback and the absurd' state of the chiefs looking down from their elephants than between the silence and order of the troops and the noise and irregularity of the mob that accompanied the Eastern potentates. [...] But for the battering-train which occupied a mile in the centre of this division at which they looked with wonder ; but for the difference of the dress and music of the Highland regiments in the second European brigade and the striking difference of size and dress of the Bengal sepoys in the right and the Coast sepoys which they now saw in the left wing ; but for these distinctions which they

Title	Pages	Author/Editor
Frontmatter	i-viii	James Grant	View
Chapter LV. The First Campaign Against Tipoo Including the Succsess of Colonels Stuart and Floyd —Battle of Shoeroor.—Conquest of Malabar Etc	277-282	James Grant	View
Chapter LVI. The Second Campaign Against Tippoo.—Bangalore Stormed.—The Battle of Carigat	283-289	James Grant	View
Chapter LVII. Junction with the Mahrattas and the Retreat to Bangalore	290-292	James Grant	View
Chapter LVIII. Third Campaign Against Tippoo.—Storming of Nundydroog Savandroog Etc.—Mr. Francis’s Motion in Parliament Lost	292-297	James Grant	View
Chapter LIX. The Rajah of Coorg.—The Bad Feeling in Britain.—Review of the Army and Final Advance upon Seringapatam	297-302	James Grant	View
Chapter LX. Tippoo’s Camp Attacked.—Seringapatam Blocked up.—Tippoo Attempts to Negociate	302-305	James Grant	View
Chapter LXI. Tippoo Humbled.—Sues for Peace —Surrender of the Hostages.—Close of the War with Mysore	305-310	James Grant	View
Chapter LXII. Sir John Shore Afterwards Lord Teignmouth.—Sea-Fight with French Cruisers.—Mahadajee Scindia Dies.—Invasion of the Deccan by the Mahrattas.—Battle of Beder.—Rebellions in the Deccan Etc.	310-317	James Grant	View
Chapter LXIII. Defeat of Gholaum Mohammed Khan. —Marriage of Vizier Ali.—The Dutch Settlements Reduced.—Discontent in the Army Etc. —End of Lord Teign Mouth’s Administration	317-323	James Grant	View
Chapter LXIV. Earl of Mornington in Office.—Intrigues Between the French and Tippoo Sultan	323-329	James Grant	View
Chapter LXV. Preparations for the Final War with Tipoo.— The Battle of Malavelly	329-334	James Grant	View
Chapter LXVI. Character Etc. of Tippoo.—Last Siege of Seringapatayr and Death of the Sultan	334-345	James Grant	View
Chapter LXVII. The Fight in Balasore Roads.—Partition of Mysore.—Restoration of the Ancient Hindoo Dynasty	345-348	James Grant	View
Chapter LXVIII. “The King of the Two Worlds” Defeated and Slain	348-352	James Grant	View
Chapter LXIX. Acquisitions in the Carnatic Oude and Ferruckabad.—The Army of Egypt.—Annexation of Surat	352-359	James Grant	View
Chapter LXX. A New Marratta War.—The Battle of Assaye.—Truce with Scindia	359-368	James Grant	View
Chapter LXXI. The Provinces of Goojerat and Cuttack Reduced.—Allyghur Stormed.—Battle of Delhi.—The Great Gun of Agra.—Battle of Laswaree	369-376	James Grant	View
Chapter LXXII. Conquest of Bundelcund.—Battle of Argaon.—Storming of Gawilghur and End of the War	376-381	James Grant	View
Chapter LXXIII. Sea-Fight Off Pulo Aor.—The House of Holkar.—War.—Monson’s Disastrous Retreat	381-389	James Grant	View
Chapter LXXIV. The War with Holkar.—Ochterlony’s Defence of Delhi.—Our Victories at Ferruckabad and Deeg	389-394	James Grant	View
Chapter LXXV. The Four Fatal Assaults on Bhurtpore.—Ameer Khan.—End of the Blockade	394-401	James Grant	View
Chapter LXXVI. Cornwallis again Governor-General.—His Death and Tomb	401-405	James Grant	View
Chapter LXXVII. Treaty with Scindia.—Pursuit of Holkar.—Tragic End of Sirjee Rao.—The Mutiny at Vellore	405-411	James Grant	View
Chapter LXXVIII. The Earl of Minto Governor-General—Tragic Story of Lakshman the Robber.—Comonah Expedition—Ameer Khan and Other Robber Chiefs	411-417	James Grant	View
Chapter LXXIX. Naval Affairs in the Indian Seas 1807 to 1809	417-422	James Grant	View
Chapter LXXX. Capture of Kallinger.—“The Irish Kajah.”—Treaty with Runjeet Sing.—The Embassy to Cabul	422-427	James Grant	View
Chapter LXXXI. The Embassifs to Persia and Scinde 1809.—Fighting in Travancore	428-431	James Grant	View
Chapter LXXXII. The Dissensions at Madras.—Mutiny of the Army.—Its Causes and Conclusion	431-436	James Grant	View
Chapter LXXXIII. Capture of Goa Macao Isle of France.—The Moluccas	436-440	James Grant	View
Chapter LXXXIV. Conquest of Java and its Dependences	440-447	James Grant	View
Chapter LXXXV. The Muchs.—The Nepaulese and Ghoorkas.—Death of the Earl of Minto	447-449	James Grant	View
Chapter LXXXVI. The Earl of Moira Governor-General.—The Nepaulese War	450-456	James Grant	View
Chapter LXXXVII. War with the Choorkas.—Valour and Success of Ochterlony.—Operations of General Wood.—Conquest of Kumaon and Gurwhal Etc.	456-461	James Grant	View
Chapter LXXXVIII. The Heights of Maloun Captured.—The Second Campaign in Nepalil Under Ochterlony.—Its Victorious Conclusion	461-470	James Grant	View
Chapter LXXXIX. Intrigues of the Ghoorkas.—Cutch Subdued.—Opposition of the Hindoos to Taxation.—The Siege of Hatrass and Flight of Dyaram	470-476	James Grant	View
Chapter XC. The Pindarees and what Led to a War with Them	476-482	James Grant	View
Chapter XCI. Detail of the Armies of Hindostan and the Deccan.—Scindia’s Treaty and Contingent.—Mountstuart Elphinstone and the Peishwa Etc.	482-488	James Grant	View
Chapter XCII. The Battle of Kirkee.—Revolt of Apa Sahib.—The Battles of the Seetabuldee Hills and Nagpore.—Combat of Jubulpore Etc.	488-497	James Grant	View
Chapter XCIII. Battle of Maheidpore.—Cholera Morbus.—Legend Concerning it.—Progress of the Pindaree War	498-506	James Grant	View
Chapter XCIV. The Battle of Koreigaum.—Continued Flight of the Peishwa Etc.	506-514	James Grant	View
Chapter XCV. Capture of Chanda and Riaghur.—The Killedar of Talnere	514-519	James Grant	View
Chapter XCVI. Operations in Candeish.—Fall of Malligaumi.—Apa Sahib Made Prisoner But Escapes.— Surrender of the Last Peishwa of the Mahrattas Etc.	520-526	James Grant	View
Chapter XCVII. Of the Bheels and Gonds. Etc.—APA Sahid Again in Arms.—His Flight.	527-531	James Grant	View
Chapter XCVIII. Preparations Against Aseerghur.—Its Siege and Capture.—Close of the War and its Results	531-536	James Grant	View
Chapter XCIX. British Rule in Central India.—The Kandyan War and Conquest of Ceylon	537-544	James Grant	View
Chapter C. The Affairs of Cutch.—Quarrel with the Ameers of Scinde.—Insurrection in Goojerat.—Affairs of Oude and the Deccan.—Case of Palmer and Co.	544-550	James Grant	View
Chapter CI. The Pirates of the Gulf.—Their Origin and Progress.—End of Lord Hastings Administration	550-557	James Grant	View
Chapter CII. George Canning Appointed Governor-General Resigns; Lord Amherst Appointed.—Sir. John Adanis in the Intirim Conducts the Administration Etc.	557-564	James Grant	View
Chapter CIII. The First Burmese War.—Capture of Rangoon.—The European Prisoners.—Morality among the Troops Etc.	564-572	James Grant	View
Chapter CIV. The War with Burmah.—Attack on the Great Pagoda at Rangoon.—Operations in Assam Arracan Etc.	572-576	James Grant	View

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