"On 30 March 1790, Cornwallis sent a letter to Medows, the new Governor of Madras: So far am I from giving credit to the late Government for economy in not making the necessary preparations for war according to the positive orders of the Supreme Government, after having received the most gross insults that could be offered to any nation, I think it is very possible that every cash of that ill-judged saving may cost the Company a crore of rupees, besides which I still more sincerely lament the disgraceful sacrifice which you have made by that delay, of the honour of your country by tamely suffering an insolent and cruel enemy to overwhelm the dominions of the Rajah of Travancore which we were bound by the most sacred ties of friendship and good faith to defend.61"
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quoted in Vikram Sampath - Tipu - The Saga of Mysore's Interregnum (2024)
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Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (31 December 1738 – 5 October 1805) was a British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator. In the United States and United Kingdom, he is best known as one of the leading British general officers in the American War of Independence. His surrender in 1781 to a combined Franco-American force at the siege of Yorktown ended significant hostilities in North America. Cornwallis later served as a civil and military governor in Ireland, where
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