'The Governor-General in Council reflects with pride, satisfaction, and gratitude, that in this arduous crisis, the spirit and exertions of our Indian army have kept pace with those of our countrymen at home; and that in India, as in Europe, Great Britain has found in the malevolent designs of her enemies, an increasing source of her own prosperity, fame, and power.' [Illustration: _Heath del._ _Madeley Lith. 3 Wellington S^t Strand._ TWELFTH REGIMENT OF FOOT. STORMING OF SERINGAPATAM MAY 4^{TH} 1799. _For Cannons Military Records._] The territory subject to the late Tippoo Sultan was divided: to Great Britain was allotted the capital and several extensive districts; another portion was given to the Nizam; and a third to the Mahratta power; the remainder continued to form an independent state under a descendant of the ancient rulers of Mysore. Thus was the hostile combination against England confounded, British territory extended, and its power and revenue increased. The TWELFTH regiment was afterwards rewarded with the royal authority to bear the word SERINGAPATAM on its colours, to commemorate its gallant conduct during this war, and the officers received medals from the East India Company.[20] The regiment captured eight stand of colours from the troops of Tippoo Sultan at the storming of the capital. After encamping a short time near Seringapatam, and afterwards near Yarriagoranelly, the regiment marched into garrison at the captured fortress; but while it was stationed there, a partisan, named Dhoondia, excited the Mysoreans to take arms in opposition to the allied powers, which occasioned orders to be issued for the TWELFTH foot again to take the field. This partisan assembled an irregular force, and gained possession of several fortified places. When a small body of troops was sent against him, he fled, and was pursued to the frontiers of the Mysore country. [Sidenote: 1800] The regiment was afterwards encamped near Seringapatam, where it was joined in December, 1800, by the seventy-seventh foot, some battalions of Sepoys, and a proportion of native cavalry, forming a small army under Colonel Pater, for the purpose of reducing the warlike tribes of the _Wynaad_ country,--a mountainous district overrun with woods, and comprising about twelve hundred square miles, situate in the province of Malabar. [Sidenote: 1801] Leaving the vicinity of Seringapatam on the 26th of December, five companies of the regiment arrived at Manantoddy on the 9th of January, 1801, and were employed until the 23rd of that month, in stockading the small hill fort, and in making arrangements for entering the woody districts of the Wynaad country. From Manantoddy the TWELFTH proceeded to Peria Colgum, where they constructed a redoubt: they afterwards marched to Lackerry Cottah, at which village another redoubt was constructed.