Journals of the Sieges of the Madras Army, in the Years 1817, 1818, And 1819: With Observations on the System, According to Which Such Operations Have Usually Been Conducted in India, and a Statement of the Improvements That Appear Necessary

Excerpt from Journals of the Sieges of the Madras Army, in the Years 1817, 1818, and 1819: With Observations on the System, According to Which Such Operations Have Usually Been Conducted in India, and a Statement of the Improvements That Appear Necessary

IN the Work now committed to the indul gence of the public, the Author does not pro fess to relate any thing new, regarding the events of the late Mahratta War, which are already sufficiently known, through the me diam of the different histories of it, that have been published: his object has been to present, in detail, particular operations, which the nature of those histories has obliged their Authors to treat in a cursory manner, but of which, as forming a most important branch of the war, it is essential that an account should be given not only as a record of the past, but as it may also be made a land-mark for the future. It is with this View, that he has added to the journals of the different Sieges, a few remarks upon the operations carried on, and that he has treated the Whole subject at large, in his preliminary and concluding Chapters. In the former of these, the Author has hazarded some observa tions and reflections on the Native Fortresses.

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