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184 HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAVY.
Among the Bombay Marine officers who accompanied General
Meadows, was Mr. Hayes, who was present with the division
under Colonel Stuart at the capture of Palacatcherry, about thirty
miles in the rear of the General's head-quarters at Coimbatore.
General Abcrcromby, Governor of Bombay, had not been able
to take the field until late in the season, but when he arrived at
Tellicherry, he quickly made amends by the rapidity and success
of his movements. He appeared off' Cannanore with a combined
military and naval force, and, after a brief resistance, the place
surrendered ; thence he proceeded to overrun the country, and,
in the space of a few weeks, every place belonging to Tippoo
in Malabar was wrested from him, and the whole province placed
in possession of the English.* The Bombay Marine participated
in the capture of Cannanore, and among the officers present
here and at the fall of Carlie, Billeapatam, and other places,
was Mr. Hayes. The last event in this war was the siege of
Seringapatam, by Lord Cornwallis, who took the field in person,
and it was prosecuted with such energy and success that, in
March, 1792, Tippoo was glad to purchase peace by the cession
of "one-half of the dominion of which he was possessed before
the war," including the State of Coorg. England was at this
time on the eve of that great struggle with her old enemy, which
is known in history as the Bevolutionary War, and though the
Bomba}^ Marine, from its numerical strength and the size of the
ships, did not play an important part in the momentous conflict,
yet on the occasions when the Service had opportunities for
earning distinction, its officers and men worthily upheld the
honour of the British name, and, in no instance, did the Bombay
Marine lower its flag except to an enemy of greatly superior
force.
* Mill's History, vol. v., p. 356. Also for details of the campaign, see
Colouel Wilks' " Historical Sketches," vol. iii.