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320 FRANCKLIN'S NOTES ON CEYLON AND INDIA and are well defended by batteries and redoubts; a river runs parallel to the western angle, which, break- ing off from thence, runs among the hills. Here the English troops sustained a severe siege for several years against the army of Hyder under the command of Sadik Khan; however, on the arrival of Major Abingdon with a reinforcement from the Bombay settlement, the gar- A SCENE IN TRAVANCORE, SOUTHWESTERN INDIA. rison made a most spirited and successful sally, in which, having defeated the enemy and killed great numbers of them, they at length compelled them to raise the siege, obtaining, at the same time, a considerable booty of horses, tents, and elephants. The general of the enemy was dangerously wounded and taken prisoner, and died a few days after, of that and a broken heart, at Telli- cherri. I am informed that if he had lived and returned to the presence, he would have been cashiered, as the Nabob Hyder had set his heart on the reduction of the place. He lies buried close to the fort of Tellicherri;