+----------------+-----------+-----------+ | |_Officers._| _Men._ | | _Regiments._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | K. | W. | K. | W. | +----------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |Royal Artillery | - | 2 | 19 | 67 | |71st H.L.I. | 2 | 6 | 84 | 112 | |101st Regiment | 4 | 6 | 42 | 55 | |Hanoverians | 4 | 12 | 62 | 144 | |64th Pioneers | - | - | 6 | 16 | |67th Punjabis | - | - | - | 8 | |72nd Seaforths | 1 | - | 23 | 47 | |Dublin Fus. | - | 2 | 8 | 29 | |72nd Punjabis | - | 3 | 6 | 39 | |18th Madras In. | - | 3 | 4 | 50 | |20th M.N.I. | 1 | 1 | 6 | 14 | |Bengal Infantry | 7 | 5 | 12 | 90 | +----------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ On the opposite or Malabar coast Colonel McLeod, with the 2nd Battalion of the 42nd, details of the 98th, 100th, and 102nd Regiments, and the 8th Battalion of Bombay Sepoys, won a decisive victory at Paniani on November 27, 1782, the 42nd losing 3 officers and 57 men in the action; but the chief honours were reserved for the 42nd at Mangalore. MANGALORE, 1783. The Royal Highlanders and 101st Grenadiers alone bear this battle honour, and surely in the many names inscribed on the colours and appointments of the Black Watch, there is not one which redounds more to the glory of the regiment than this little-known achievement, one of the brightest in the military history of our own or of any other country. A glance at the map of India will show Mangalore on the west or Malabar coast of the peninsula. During our operations against Hyder Ali, and subsequently against his son, the redoubted Tippoo Sultan, its possession was of vital importance to both ourselves and to the Mysoreans. Tippoo Sultan was in direct communication with Napoleon, and through the Malabar ports reinforcements and supplies reached him from France. When, in 1783, General Matthews, the Commander-in-Chief in Bombay, led a column to reduce the fortress of Bednore, in which Tippoo's treasure was stored, he left garrisons at Mangalore and Onore to keep open his communication with the sea. At first successful, Matthews was in the end compelled to capitulate, and he, with the bulk of his army, were done to death by the Mysoreans. Mangalore was held by a force of about 1,800 men, under Colonel Campbell, of the 42nd; Onore by an officer of the Bombay Army named Torriano, with whom at present I have nothing to do.