"This order being executed with the utmost strictness nothing was to be seen in the roads for the distance of four leagues round but scattered limbs and mutilated bodies. The country of the Nayars [Nairs] was thrown into general consternation which was much increased by the cruelty of the Mapileys [Mapillahs], who followed the cavalry, massacred all who had escaped, without sparing women and children; so that the army advancing under the conduct of this enraged multitude, instead of meeting with resistance, found the villages, fortresses, temples and in general every habitable place forsaken and deserted."
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De La Tour. Tour, Maistre de La (MDLT.), The History of Hyder Shah, Alias Hyder Ali Khan Bahadur and his Son Tippoo Sultaun (London: W. Thacker & Co., 1855), in Vikram Sampath - Tipu - The Saga of Mysore's Interregnum (2024)
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Mysorean invasion of Malabar
1766 – 1792
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