[472] Cust’s Wars.
[473] “A Mahratta chief, residing in the British camp, gave the following account of the action in a letter to his friends at Poonah:—‘The English are a strange people, and their General a wonderful man. They came here in the morning, looked at the Pettah wall, walked over it, killed all the garrison, and then turned in to breakfast. Who can resist such men as these?’”—Cust’s Wars.
[474] Cust’s Wars.
[475] “It may not be known to the public, and perhaps not to the 78th Regiment itself, that the handsome black granite slab inserted in the Pettah wall of Ahmednuggur, bearing an inscription that on this spot fell, at the storming of the fort, Captain Thomas Mackenzie-Humberstone (son of Colonel Mackenzie-Humberstone, who was killed at the close of the Mahratta War, 1783), also to the memory of Captain Grant, Lieutenant Anderson, the non-commissioned officers, and privates of that Regiment who fell on that occasion, was placed here as a memorial by the Honourable Mrs Stewart-Mackenzie (then Lady Hood), eldest daughter of Lord Seaforth (brother of Colonel Humberstone), when she visited this spot on her way from Poonah to Hyderabad, in March 1813.”—Memorandum found among the papers of the late Colonel C. Mackenzie-Fraser of Castle Fraser.
[476] Alison’s History of Europe.
[477] “It is now said that they had in their camp 128 guns.”—General Wellesley to Major Shaw, 28th September 1803.
[478] See History of [the 74th], vol. ii. [p. 575.]
[479] Stewart’s Sketches.
[480] Alison’s History of Europe.
[481] Sir Samuel Auchmuty’s Despatch.