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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. CAMPAIGN AGAINST DHOONDIAH IN CEYLON THE MAHfiATTA WAR RETURNS TO ENGLAND. From the month of April, 1799, to December, 1800, Colo- nel Wellesley retained without a break the chief command in Seringapatam. So long as General Harris's army lingered near, his position was that of commandant of the fortress alone. When the main body of the force returned to Madras, he became civil as well as military superintendent of the district. It was a position which imposed upon him much responsibility, and put no inconsiderable strain upon his energies. He had order to bring out of confusion, the authority of law and justice to re-establish ; bands of robbers to eradicate ; refractory chiefs to subdue. He accomplished all these objects as much by management as by force, and made himself at once respected and beloved by all classes of the people. A becoming addition to his pay and allowances relieved him at the same time from pecuniary anxieties, while his share of prize money, about £5000, enabled him to repay to his brother sums advanced for the purchase of his promotion. This was a great weight taken from his mind, but sterner work was cut out for him. In the dungeons of Seringapatam there lay, at the period of its capture, a notable robber, by name Dhoondiah Waugh. He was one of those adventurers whom we meet with only in the East, who by courage and a certain amount of ability raise themselves suddenly to influence, and not unfrequently fall again as suddenly as they rose. Captured by Tippoo, he had been reserved for a painful death, which he escaped by the bursting open of his prison-doors when Seringapataw1800.] DHOOXDIAF WATJGH. 27 fell to the English. He fled, and soon gathered round him some thousands of desperate men, chiefly the wreck of Tippoo's army. Wit...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780548094914
  • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 512
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 965 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0548094918
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jul 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Width: 152 mm

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