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LIEUTENANT GENERAL

LORD FITZROY J. H. SOMERSET,

K.C.B. K.T.S. K.M.T. &c. &c. &c.

MILITARY SECRETARY

TO THE GENERAL COMMANDING IN CHIEF,

AND THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGNS IN PORTUGAL, SPAIN, FRANCE,

AND FLANders,

AIDE-DE-CAMP AND MILITARY SECRETARY TO

FIELD MARSHAL

HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON,

THIS WORK

IS,

WITH PERMISSION, MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,

BY

HIS LORDSHIP'S OBLIGED AND OBEdient

HUMBLE SERVANTS,

THE AUTHORS.

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CONTENTS

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME.

CHAPTER I.

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Early Life of the Honourable Arthur Wellesley. - Appoint-

ment to an Ensigncy. - Rapid Promotion. A Member of

the Irish Parliament. - Lands at Ostend. Service in Flan-

ders. Faults of the Allies. Affair of Boxtel. Meteren.

Harassing Retreat. Re-embarkation. — Observations on

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the Campaign

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CHAP. II.

Colonel Wellesley sails for the West Indies, and is driven back.

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- Destination changed. -Lands at Calcutta.-Visits Madras.

Earl of Mornington. Territorial and Political State of

India. Possessions of the Company. The Mahrattas.—

Tippoo Sultaun. Policy of the British. Causes of the

War. Preparations for Hostilities. - March of the Army

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from Vellore

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Tippoo's Plan of Defence.

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- Affair of Sedaseer. - Invasion of

Mysore. Action at Malavelly. March to Seringapatam.

-Description of the Fortress. Affair of Posts. Invest-

ment of the Place. - Active Zeal of Colonel Wellesley. ·

Storming of Seringapatam. - Death of Tippoo. His Cha-

racter

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CHAP. IV.

Colonel Wellesley in Command of Seringapatam. His active

Measures. Partition of Tippoo's Dominions. Dhoondiah

Waugh. Colonel Wellesley in the Government of Mysore.

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Takes the Field against Dhoondiah, who had become for-

midable. Active Operations to put him down.

and Death of that extraordinary Man

Defeat

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CHAP. V.

Observations.

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Colonel Wellesley directed to remain in the

Mahratta Country. Condition of the Peshwah at Poonah.

Influence of Scindiah. - British Troops ordered to retire.

Colonel Wellesley ordered to Madras, preparatory to as-

suming the Command of an Expedition. - Trincomalee.

Colonel Wellesley acts up to the Spirit of a Communication

from the English Government. Sails for Bombay. — Ge-

neral Baird appointed to command the Expedition to the

Red Sea. Illness of Colonel Wellesley. Returns to My-

sore

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CHAP. VI.

Account of the Mahratta Empire. — Policy of the Indian Go-

vernment. - Holkar defeats the Peshwah's Force. - Flight

of the Peshwah. A British Army assembled at Hurryhur.

General Wellesley enters the Mahratta Territory

the Rajah of Berar. - General Wellesley invested with ex-

traordinary Powers. - Declaration of War.- Capture of

Ahmednuggur. Active Operations

Operations continued. Truce with Scin-

diah. Battle of Argaum. - Capture of Gawilghur.-Peace

with the Rajah of Berar and Scindiah

Contribution levied at Burhampoor. - Popularity of General

Wellesley. Scene in Scindiah's Durbar. Wellesley's Opi-

nion of the Peshwah. Destruction of a Body of Freeboo-

ters. Holkar. Fort of Gwalior. Army of the Deccan

General Wellesley at Calcutta. Returns to