[9] The following allusion to Captain Gilchrist is made by Captain _Munro_, in his _Narrative_:-- “Here our regiment had the misfortune of burying Captain Gilchrist, a brave and experienced officer, whose loss the SEVENTY-THIRD had much cause to lament, he having always acted as a mentor to the young and inexperienced gentlemen of his corps. This veteran had the honor, when a subaltern, of witnessing the exploits of General Wolfe upon the plains of Quebec, and was now at the head of our grenadier company; but, having exerted himself too much upon the march to Conjeveran, he was seized at that place with a fever, which disabling him from conducting the grenadiers upon the detachment under Lieut.-Colonel Fletcher, affected his mind so deeply, particularly when he heard of their dismal fate, that a delirium came on during this march, of which he died, regretted and justly lamented by all.” [10] Lieut.-Colonel James Craufurd, of the SEVENTY-THIRD regiment, was promoted to the local rank of Colonel in the East Indies on the 22d March 1780. [11] The value of a pagoda is seven shillings and sixpence. [12] A Narrative of the Military Operations on the Coromandel Coast, against the combined forces of the French, Dutch, and Hyder Ali, from 1780 to 1784, by Captain Innes Munro, of the _Seventy-third_ or Lord Macleod’s Regiment of Highlanders. [13] The following is extracted from a letter, dated 28th January 1782, from Lieut.-General Sir Eyre Coote, K.B., then at Fort George, Madras, addressed to the Earl of Shelburne, one of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State:-- “Colonel Craufurd, of His Majesty’s SEVENTY-THIRD regiment, having had my leave to return to Europe, will have the honor of delivering your lordship this letter. “I should do injustice to the high sense I entertain of Colonel Craufurd’s merit as an officer, did I omit on this occasion mentioning how much he has acquitted himself to my satisfaction, and with honor and credit to himself, in the whole course of a most trying campaign. He was next in command to me at the battle of Sholingur, on which occasion his conduct was deserving of the highest applause.” [14] Major John Elphinston, of the SEVENTY-THIRD regiment, was promoted to the local rank of lieutenant-colonel in the East Indies on the 23d of May 1781. [15] _Droog_ signifies a fortified hill or rock. [16] In 1794 Tippoo received back his sons, and immediately commenced secret negotiations with the French, who were then at war with Great Britain, in order to renew measures for “utterly destroying the English in India.” This animosity ended only with the death of the Sultan, which took place on the 4th of May 1799, while defending Seringapatam against his former opponents. His body was found amidst heaps of slain, and was interred in the mausoleum which he had erected over the tomb of his father, Hyder Ali, a portion of the victorious troops attending the ceremony.