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was deceived, and followed his enemy with indifcreet ardour.
Madab-row made a fudden return, and after feveral fkilful ma-
nceuvres furrounded the whole army of his veteran foe, who
he himfelf 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 returned
to him, 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. Madah-
row returned home with glory : foon after he fell into a decline.
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.
L o r d Cornwallis marched towards Bangalore, where he. had
left Colonel Duff as governor. He fent the numerous lick 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 preferred
for that purpofe the Policode pafs, which is connected
with Bangalore, is o f eafy afcent, and leads through a fertile
country into the Carnatic. This and its feveral forts were now
in pofleifion of the enemy. Their expulfion was neceflary, and
that was the objeft o f his lordihip’s expedition.
* Hift. Bombay, p. 42.