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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1782 Excerpt: ...in the pagoda from escaping, and at the same time oppose any other body which might come to their relief. At day-break, the commanding officer of the French, seeing the danger of his situation, made a fally at the head of his men, who received so heavy a fire, that he himself with twelve others, who first came out of the gateway, were killed by the volley, on which the rest ran back into the pagoda. Captain Clive then advanced into the porch of the gate, to parley with the enemy, and being weak with the loss of blood and fatigue, stood with his back to the wall of the porch, and leaned stooping forward on the shoulders of the two serjeants. The officer of the English deserters presented himself with great insolence, and telling Captain Clive with abusive language, that he would shoot him, fired his musket. The ball missed him, but 3 went went through the bodies of both the serjeants on whom he was leaning, and they both fell mortally wounded. The Frenchmen had hitherto defended the pagoda, in compliance with the English deserters, but thinking it necessary to disavow such an outrage, which might exclude them from any pretensions to quarter, their officer immediately surrendered. By this time, the body of the enemy's Sepoys had passed out of the camp, with as little interruption as they had entered it; but orders having been sent to the Marattas to pursue them, Innis Khan, with all his men, mounted at daybreak, and came up with them in the open plain, before they gained the bank of the Coleroon. The Sepoys no sooner perceived them, than they flung away their arms, and attempted to save themselves by dispersing; but the Marattas, who never figure so much as in these cruel exploit3, exerted themselves with such activity, that, according to their own report, no...

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