Conventions entre les Anglois et le Grand-Mogol.
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Quelque tems après, j’eus avis que l’empereur Cha-Alem, poursuivi jusques à Gueya à trente
account. I therefore ordered all the carriages to be burnt and left the cannon till we have more leizure to take them away. It gives me particular pleasure to inform you that we have not lost a man in the action, but a few of the nabob’s troops who had got up near of one of the french tumbrils. It seems the enemy had laid a train to it in hopes of its catching while our Europeans were storning the battery, but fortunately we were advanced two or three hundred yards in the pursuit before it had effect, and the whole shock, was sustained by the foremost of the Nabob’s troops, who were blown up to the number of near four hundred, whereof seventy or eighty died on the spot… I must observe to the honour of your troops, both Europeans and Sepays that when they advanced upon the french guns, tho’they were totally expired to them above the distance of four hundred yards and had they been properly pointed must have been galled considerably by them, yet they never deigned to take their muskets from their shoulders… While I am writing a french soldier, wounded in the action, has been brought in time, and I expect as we move so closely after the enemy to pick up more of them. »
* Cette liste manque à l’India Office.
Lett. 9 Feb. 1761. — To Major Carnac. — « Lieutenant Perry arrived the 6th instant with 43 French prisoners under his charge and six of the officers, of whose parole you sent me the copy. »
(India Office. Bengal Secret and military consultation.)
Extract from a letter dated 4 April 1761 from Major John Carnac to Colonel Eyre Coote.
« Such was my situation when the day long expected arri-
