Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Perembacum (First Mysore War).

Fought September 10, 1780, when a Mysore force, 11,000 strong, under Tippu Sahib, surrounded and cut to pieces a detachment of Sir Hector Monro's army, 3,700 in number, under Colonel Baillie. Only a few, including Baillie himself, escaped the massacre.