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346 ceived; on which Colonel Chalmers, without delay, ordered his line to advance in two columns to receive the enemy. The action that ensued lasted five hours, and ended in the flight of the Dewan's troops and the capture of several of their guns by the British force. Ten days after, an attack made by three columns of the enemy on three different points of a detachment in Cochin, commanded by Major Hewitt, was repulsed with the most decisive success.

The operations intrusted to Lieutenant-Colonel St. Leger were conducted with remarkable spirit and brilliancy. His detachment reached Palamcottah after a very rapid march from Trichinopoly, and proceeded at