Battle Honours of the British Army: From Tangier, 1662, to the Commencement of the Reign of King Edward VIINorman, Charles Boswell
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Battle Honours of the British Army: From Tangier, 1662, to the Commencement of the Reign of King Edward VII
Norman, Charles Boswell
Great Britain -- History, Military; Great Britain. Army -- History
In January, 1792, Cornwallis, apprised that Abercromby, with
the Bombay division, was within striking distance, commenced
his advance on Seringapatam. His force consisted of the 19th
Light Dragoons, two regiments of Madras cavalry, and the
Governor-General's Bodyguard, which he had brought down from
Calcutta, the 36th (Worcester), 52nd (Oxford Light Infantry),
72nd (Seaforths), 74th (Highland Light Infantry), 76th (West
Riding), 1st Madras Europeans (Royal Dublin Fusiliers), and sixteen
battalions of sepoys, with forty-six field and forty siege guns.
Abercromby's force comprised the 73rd (Royal Highlanders), 75th
(Gordons), 77th (Middlesex), 1st Bombay Europeans (2nd Battalion
of the Dublins), and eight battalions of sepoys, with twenty field
and sixteen siege guns, giving a total of about 9,000 British and
22,000 native troops.
On February 7 Seringapatam was carried by assault, our casualties
numbering about 535 of all ranks, and our trophies amounting
to eighty guns. On March 19 Tippoo Sultan signed a definitive
treaty of peace, ceding to England Malabar and Coorg on the west,
Baramahal and Dindigul on the Carnatic frontier, besides restoring
to the Nizam the territories wrested from Hyderabad by Hyder Ali.
The distribution of prize-money afforded Lord Cornwallis and
General Meadows, the second in command, an opportunity of giving
an example of noble generosity, these two commanders placing
their shares, amounting to £47,000 and £15,000, into the common
fund. The following were the shares for each rank: Colonels,
£1,160; Lieutenant-Colonels, £958; Majors, £734; Captains, £308;
Lieutenants, £205; Ensigns, £159; sergeants, £29; and privates, £14
10s. In the native army Subadars received 275 rupees; Jemidars, 132
rupees; havildars, 110 rupees; and sepoys, 51 rupees.
CASUALTIES AT THE SIEGE AND CAPTURE OF SERINGAPATAM, 1792.
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