[32] Dirom.
[33] One of these is now the property of the Junior United Service Club.
[34] Among the Europeans in the Nizam’s service was one Captain Finglass, who had formerly been a Quarter Master in the 19th Light Dragoons. He commanded a corps, and, in company with another corps commander, an American named Boyd, made known his determination to uphold the Company’s authority against French intrigues. Some time after the disarmament of the Nizam’s troops he was reinstated in his position in the Nizam’s service.
[35] In November 1802 the number of gun lascars was reduced to 1 First Tindal and 10 men for each European Regiment.
[36] Thorn.
[37] Afterwards Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington.
[38] Not the officer of the same name who was formerly Commander-in-Chief in Madras.
[39] Lord Combermere’s correspondence.
[40] Wilks’s Mysore.
[41] “Time and the number of guns formed the principle of our signals; for example, three guns at half-past seven denoted a position two marches from Seringapatam: two guns at eight might have denoted any other communication. And in this manner may detachments or armies on some occasions communicate intelligence, which, by messenger, might be impracticable. To ascertain that the signal of the Bombay army was understood, it was agreed to fire the same number of guns, in our camp ten minutes afterwards.” —Beatson’s Mysore War. General Floyd’s signal to establish communication with General Stuart on the 8th was two guns fired precisely at four o’clock; and, a little afterwards, four guns at intervals of a minute each. In about half an hour afterwards the same signal was repeated.—Memoirs of a Field Officer.