Memoirs of the late war in Asia

With a narrative of the imprisoment and sufferings of our officers and soldiers.
By an Officer of Colonel Baillie's Detachment [William Thompson, LLD]
2 vols. J. Murray London, 1788

William Thompson was a survivor of the awful defeat inflicted on the British Army by the combined forces of Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan at the battle of Perembaukum, near Conjeveram in India in 1780. In common with other survivors he compiled and wrote his memoirs of those terrible events and these were published in 1788. Other surviving officers also wrote and published their memoirs, very often as a means of supplementing the meagre income they obtained as wounded veterans. Thompson's War in Asia is one of the most detailed and accurate accounts containing maps and battle plans together with lists of the officers and men of Macleod's Highlanders who perished in one of the worst defeats of British arms.

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