[10] Lieut.-Colonel James Craufurd, of the SEVENTY-THIRD regiment, was promoted to the local rank of Colonel in the East Indies on the 22d March 1780.
[11] The value of a pagoda is seven shillings and sixpence.
[12] A Narrative of the Military Operations on the Coromandel Coast, against the combined forces of the French, Dutch, and Hyder Ali, from 1780 to 1784, by Captain Innes Munro, of the _Seventy-third_ or Lord Macleod’s Regiment of Highlanders.
[13] The following is extracted from a letter, dated 28th January 1782, from Lieut.-General Sir Eyre Coote, K.B., then at Fort George, Madras, addressed to the Earl of Shelburne, one of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State:--
“Colonel Craufurd, of His Majesty’s SEVENTY-THIRD regiment, having had my leave to return to Europe, will have the honor of delivering your lordship this letter.
“I should do injustice to the high sense I entertain of Colonel Craufurd’s merit as an officer, did I omit on this occasion mentioning how much he has acquitted himself to my satisfaction, and with honor and credit to himself, in the whole course of a most trying campaign. He was next in command to me at the battle of Sholingur, on which occasion his conduct was deserving of the highest applause.”
[14] Major John Elphinston, of the SEVENTY-THIRD regiment, was promoted to the local rank of lieutenant-colonel in the East Indies on the 23d of May 1781.
[15] _Droog_ signifies a fortified hill or rock.
[16] In 1794 Tippoo received back his sons, and immediately commenced secret negotiations with the French, who were then at war with Great Britain, in order to renew measures for “utterly destroying the English in India.” This animosity ended only with the death of the Sultan, which took place on the 4th of May 1799, while defending Seringapatam against his former opponents. His body was found amidst heaps of slain, and was interred in the mausoleum which he had erected over the tomb of his father, Hyder Ali, a portion of the victorious troops attending the ceremony.
[17] On the 23d of May 1821, His Majesty King George the Fourth was graciously pleased to authorise the SEVENTY-FIRST to bear on the regimental colour and appointments the word “HINDOOSTAN,” in commemoration of its distinguished services in the several actions in which it had been engaged, while in India, between the years 1780 and 1797.