"Everything now is done by moderation and conciliation—at this rate, we shall be all quakers in twenty years more . . . if peace is so desirable an object, it would be wiser to have retained the power of preserving it in our hands, than to have left it to the caprice of Tippoo, who, though he has lost half his revenue, has by no means lost half his power. He requires no combination, like us, of an able military governor, peace in Europe, and allies in the country, to enable him to prosecute war successfully. He only wants to attack them singly, when he will be more than a match for any of them . . . when we have a General of less ability than Lord Cornwallis at the head of Government, Tippoo may safely try, by the means of Gooty, Chitteldroog and Biddanor, to recover the conquests of the Mahrattas and the Nizam. If Lord Cornwallis himself could not have reduced Tippoo without the assistance of the Mahrattas,—for there is no doubt that without them he could never, after falling back from Seringapatam in May, have advanced again beyond Bangalore."
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Sir Thomas Munro, 1st Baronet
Major-General Sir Thomas Munro, 1st Baronet KCB (27 May 1761 – 6 July 1827) was a Scottish soldier and British colonial administrator. He served as an East India Company Army officer and statesman, in addition to also being the governor of Madras Presidency.
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