[56] April 6th, 1752.
[57] April 14th, 1752.
[58] Orme, vol. i. p. 223.
[59] On this incident, Mr. Beaufoy has the following note:—"As it may, perhaps, be difficult to conceive how one shot should destroy his two supporters and leave him unhurt, Mr. Archdeacon Clive mentioned this difficulty to Lord Clive, who answered, that the two men on whose shoulders he leaned were shorter than himself, and were both of them in the line of the shot, his own body being so much behind as to be out of the line." Biog. Brit. art. Clive, p. 650. note.
[60] Captain Dalton was wounded in the subsequent operations against Pitchandah.
[61] April 15th, 1752.
[62] The composition of the camp he cannonaded is well described by Orme. "Every common soldier," he observes, "in an Indian army is accompanied either by a wife or a concubine; the officers have several, and the generals whole seraglios. Besides these, the army is incumbered by a number of attendants and servants, exceeding that of the fighting men; and to supply the various wants of this enervated multitude, dealers, pedlars, and retailers of all sorts follow the camp; to whom a separate quarter is allowed, in which they daily exhibit their different commodities in greater quantities, and with more regularity, than in any fair in Europe, all of them sitting on the ground in a line, with their merchandise exposed before them, and sheltered from the sun by a mat supported by sticks."—Orme, vol i. p. 228.
[63] This expedition was commanded by Major Kinneir.
[64] Orme, vol. i. p. 256.
[65] This fort is situated twenty miles south of Madras.