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Rh the services assigned to light cavalry, had concluded that it would be more profitable to himself to turn aside and plunder the rich country of Biddenoor; and to this personal interest he hesitated not to sacrifice all the grand objects of the confederacy. Captain Little, of the Bombay army, who with a body of a thousand men, had been attached to the host of the Bhow, was obliged to second him in all these irregular pursuits, the most arduous services devolving upon himself and his followers. At one time he was urged to attack a large detachment of Tippoo's army, stationed in an almost