A Sketch of The History of Orissa From 1803-1828

accompanied the expedition in the joint capacity with Colonel Harcourt of “Commissioner for settling the affairs of Cuttack” The original plan of the campaign was that the force after caturing Cuttack and leaving a sufficient Plan of the campaign. [...] The following account of the storming of the fort on the 14th September is taken verbalim from the historical record of the 1st Madras European Fusiliers. [...].Steling says at Sage 3S of his historical account of Cuttaek " The paiks or landed militia of the Raj‘vara combine with the most profound barbarism and the blindest devotion to will of their chiefs a ferociTy and unquietness of disposittur which have ever rendered them an important and formithiblelass of the population of the province. [...] On the acquisition of the country by the British the itylebted to the Commissioner llr. [...] Some of the inhabitants of the town also joined the rebele Tile y p e priests of the temple openly the fall of the Englisheure and the restoration of the autleority of the ancient line of sacreci king.