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and are well defended by batteries and redoubts; a
river runs parallel to the western angle, which, break-
ing off from thence, runs among the hills. Here the
English troops sustained a severe siege for several years
against the army of Hyder under the command of Sadik
Khan; however, on the arrival of Major Abingdon with
a reinforcement from the Bombay settlement, the gar-
A SCENE IN TRAVANCORE, SOUTHWESTERN INDIA.
rison made a most spirited and successful sally, in which,
having defeated the enemy and killed great numbers of
them, they at length compelled them to raise the siege,
obtaining, at the same time, a considerable booty of
horses, tents, and elephants. The general of the enemy
was dangerously wounded and taken prisoner, and died
a few days after, of that and a broken heart, at Telli-
cherri. I am informed that if he had lived and returned
to the presence, he would have been cashiered, as the
Nabob Hyder had set his heart on the reduction of the
place. He lies buried close to the fort of Tellicherri;
