An account of the gallant defence made at Mangalore in the East-Indies; against the united efforts of the French and the Nabob Tippo Sultan, by a detachment of His Majesty’s and the honourable the East India Company’s troops, under the command of the late Colonel John Campbell Major of the 42nd (or Royal Holland) Regiment of Foot, in May 1783. With the suffering of that garrison during a six months cessation of arms. To which is added the orders given out by Colonel Campbell from the commencement of the siege to the time of the garrison’s being obliged to capitulate; and two small views, and a plan of the fort, with the country immediately adjacent.
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BKS1175

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Mangalore, Siege of, 1783 (2nd Mysore War 1780-1784)