to its relief, but on their way they heard it was taken. They
continued fometimes moving towards our army, fometimes
ilackening their pace; they feemed to be as Admiral Hawke
defcribed the French to have been previous to the a ¿lion of
November aoth, “ afraid to fight, and afhamed to run away.”
At length they encamped near Broderah, a town and ftrong
fortrefs, the capital and ufual refidence o f Futty Sing, fixty-nine
Britijh miles north-eaft of Surat; their intent was to diftrefs
Goddard, by depriving him of forage and provifion: this he
ended by a decifive ftroke on April 3d; he marched, at two in
the morning, with a chofen body and fome artillery, and after
going feven miles entered the very centre of their camp undif-
covered, and began his attack. After a vain and confufed oppo-
fition they fled to a neighboring ground, where he renewed the
charge, and the whole army, o f forty thoufand men, left him
matter o f the whole country. Of his little force he had not
more than twenty killed and wounded. Thus was the dilgrace
o f Worgaum moft effectually done away. The general returned
towards Bombay; and on December n th , in the fame year, took
BaJJein, the ifle of Salcette, and other places. In 1781, he made
an expedition towards Poonah, and trod the fame fteps nearly
with thofe taken by Egerton, and his field committee, in 1778,
fee p. 95 of my firft volume, oppofed by an army o f feventy
thoufand men. He was obliged to retreat, but with fuch judgment,
and with fo little lofs, as to aftonifh the enemy, who,
after being frequently repulfed with immenfe flaughter, left
him to purfue his march unmolefted.
L e n g th o f t h e T h i s celebrated march is eftimated by the author o f the IVars
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in Afia at fifteen hundred miles. For want of better information,
at p. 67, of my firft volume, I was there led into an error,
llnlefs he begins the march of the brigade from a diftant part
o f Bengal, it mutt be greatly over-rated. I meafured it by the
original map which Lady James> a near relation of General
Goddard’s, favored me with the ufe o f : it there appears to be
eight hundred miles from Calpy to Surat.. I certainly may give
it a far greater length, and fairly, by adding his marches to
BaJJein, to Amedabad, to Brodera, to Vizrabuy, and from thence
up the Ghauts towards Poonah, attended with glory but not
with fuccefs. The feveral marches- may add a few hundred
miles to the General’s military labors, but I mutt confine my
eftimate to t h e m a r c h i t s e l f , which exceeded eight hundred
miles, amidft a hoftile people for a great part o f the way,who
watched every opportunity o f harafling him. 7 often amidft
want o f provifions, and always under a burning fun, or a deluging
monfaon. In an advance to the defence of his countrymen,
he had the difficulties of a retreat. What JujUn applies
to that o f the T e n , T h o u s a n d , may,, with.exaft juftice, be applied
to the exertion of his great abilities in the conduit o f his
brave legion. “ Pott mortem Cyr.i neque armis vinci, neque
“ dolo capi potuerunt, reyertentefque inter tot indomitas na-
“ tiones, et barbaras gentes, per tanta itineris fpatia virtute fe
H ufque terminos patriae defenderunt,’’
A f t e r the. expedition againft Poonah, the General returned General
to Bombay; and in July 1781, prepared a plan o f operations for. T°
the enfuing campaign, and laid it before the feleit committee of
Bombay, who concurred in the expediency, and fent to the government
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