. The military history of the Madras engineers and pioneers, from 1743 up to the present time . d. On iSth. October General Godwin returned to Rangoon,leaving Sir John Cheape in command at Prome, and MajorFraser, , and Major Allan, Deputy Quartermaster-General,were entrusted with the arrangements for the housing of thetroops. During the month of October, Bundoola delivered himself upto Sir John Cheape, and was placed as a prisoner on board theSesostris. He had been ordered to appear before the King inthe dress of a woman, as a disgrace for losing his army in July,which order he very natura
. The military history of the Madras engineers and pioneers, from 1743 up to the present time . d. On iSth. October General Godwin returned to Rangoon,leaving Sir John Cheape in command at Prome, and MajorFraser, , and Major Allan, Deputy Quartermaster-General,were entrusted with the arrangements for the housing of thetroops. During the month of October, Bundoola delivered himself upto Sir John Cheape, and was placed as a prisoner on board theSesostris. He had been ordered to appear before the King inthe dress of a woman, as a disgrace for losing his army in July,which order he very naturally refused to obey. Nothing of any great consequence occurred at Prome duringthe mouth uf November. There were a few trifling attacks madeon our outposts, without much result, and the Sappers lostseveral of their men from cholera. In one of the small affairsnear Prome, Carpendale of the Engineers got a blow in the backfrom a splinter of a jingal he was trying to burst; and on 29thNovember a party of Burmans fired at Mackintosh, of the * One hundred and nineteen men, under Lieutenant Allen,.
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