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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In Mangalore, Tippoo Saib ordered the execution by cannon of the local governor and officers who surrendered the fort to British forces the previous spring, delivering a speech criticizing their surrender after his failed eight-month siege.
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Extract of a letter from Tillicberry, Coast of Malabar. Feb. 10.
"I cannot conclude my letter without relating an affair that happened at Mangalore, which will give you some idea of the character of Tippoo Saib. He ordered the Killadar (or Governor) of Mangalore, with the principal officers who surrendered that place to us last spring, to be brought down in chains to the camp, and at the head of his troops, in sight of our garrison, he ordered all of them to be blown from the mouths of his great guns, after making this singular speech: "I invested and besieged this place for eight months, with 30,000 men; I took their outworks: I breached their walls: I in vain attempted to storm it: prevented supplies from entering the fort; and yet could not take it.--How then could your dastardly souls suffer 800 men to take it from 4000?-- A man in the vigor of life, with such ideas, must prove no contemptible foe."
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Mangalore, Coast Of Malabar
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Feb. 10
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all principal officers executed by being blown from the mouths of great guns
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Tippoo Saib ordered the Killadar and principal officers, who surrendered Mangalore to British forces last spring, brought in chains to camp and executed in sight of the British garrison after a speech criticizing their surrender following his failed eight-month siege with 30,000 men.