"Hast thou not seen my horsemen charge the foe, Shot through the arms, cut overthwart the hands, Dying their lances wi…"

"At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly h…"

"Robson mentions the plunder of Hindu temples in Tanjore: Hyder entered the Tanjore country, plundering and burning ev…"

"Edmund Burke, the statesman and orator in England, recounts: He [Haidar] became at length so confident of his force, …"

"Innes Munro, an eyewitness and a captain in the late 73rd or Lord Macleod’s Regiment of Highlanders, records the horr…"

"Kirmani proudly recounts the manner in which Tanjore was ravaged by the forces of Tipu: Prince Tippoo with seven thou…"

"Then next, the way to fortify your men; In champion grounds what figure serves you best, For which the quinque-angle …"

"Others did fortify and rampire their walls, set up little fortresses, bastions, squared ravelins, digged trenches, cl…"

"And, like a troop of jolly huntsmen, come Our lusty English, all with purpled hands, Dyed in the dying slaughter of t…"

"Much work for tears in many an English mother, Whose sons lie scattered on the bleeding ground; Many a widow’s husban…"