+------------------------+-----------+-----------+ | |_Officers._| _Men._ | | _Regiments._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | K. | W. | K. | W. | +------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |Royal Navy | - | 1 | - | 2 | |Royal Artillery | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | |39th Dorset | 1 | - | 1 | 4 | |Royal Munster Fusiliers | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | |1st R. Dublin Fusiliers | - | - | 1 | 3 | |2nd R. Dublins | - | - | - | 1 | |Bengal sepoys | - | - | 9 | 11 | |Madras sepoys | - | - | 4 | 10 | +------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ CONDORE, DECEMBER 9, 1758. Royal Munster Fusiliers. Royal Dublin Fusiliers. In the course of this year there was incessant fighting between our troops in Madras and the French and their allies; but the value of India was now becoming more thoroughly appreciated by the Cabinet, and a second regiment, then numbered the 79th, was sent out to Madras, under Colonel William Draper. The French, on their part, were not behindhand. The Count Lally and Admiral d'Ache arrived, with close on 3,000 French troops, and the British forts at Cuddalore and St. David were captured. Matters were looking serious indeed in Southern India, when Clive, still in Calcutta, determined to make a diversion. Eyre Coote, the Major of the 39th, who had shown such gallantry at Plassey, was in England busily employed in raising a regiment for service in India, and so was not available; but Clive detached Major Forde, of the 39th, with detachments of his own regiment and of the 1st Bengal Europeans (now the Munster Fusiliers), barely numbering 600 men, and some 2,000 sepoys, down the coast to Vizagapatam, which was being threatened by a French force, under Conflans. Despite the odds against him--for the French army outnumbered his by at least three to one--Forde pushed on, finally meeting Conflans near the mouth of the Godavery River. CASUALTIES AT CONDORE. +-------------------------+-----------+-----------+ | |_Officers._| _Men._ | | _Regiment._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | K. | W. | K. | W. | +-------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |Royal Munster Fusiliers | | | | | | (1st Bengal Europeans) | 1 | 4 | 15 | 29 | +-------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+