; and the fortress only escaped his ravages.
Grown bold by success, the allies resolved upon a pitched battle with
Colonel Smith; and a conflict took place near Trinomalee, in which they
were routed. The nizam now again changed sides, and came over to the
English; and in the month of December, Colonel Smith once more defeated
Hyder Ali and the Peishwa, who fled to Caverypatum, on the river Panaur.
On hearing of his successes, the presidency at Madras resolved to carry
the war into the very heart of Hyder Ali's dominions; and Colonel Smith
received orders to march upon Bangalore, while Colonel Wood, who was
detached from Smith's force, was directed to operate on the frontiers.
As the territory around Bangalore was barren, Colonel Smith represented
to the presidency that his army could not subsist in that country; but
his representation was unheeded, and he was compelled to set forward
on his march. This proved a fatal step. Colonel Smith arrived in the
neighbourhood of Bangalore, and Colonel Wood overran the fruitful
country on the frontiers; but Hyder Ali, flushed with a recent victory
which he had gained over some English troops, which the presidency of
Bombay had sent into Malabar and Canara, returned to Mysore, and by
the end of the year 1768 recovered every inch of territory he had
lost. Early in the year following Hyder Ali again poured down into the
Carnatic; and so irresistible were his movements that the presidency of
Madras proposed terms of peace. Hyder Ali could not hope to conquer
the English, and he readily listened to the proposal; and a treaty was
concluded, by which it was agreed that a mutual restitution of territory
should take place, and that there should be a mutual co-operation
against all enemies. But this treaty was not kept in good faith by the
English; for soon after, when Hyder Ali applied to the presidency of
Madras for assistance against the Peishwa of the Mahrattas, who again
invaded Mysore, and swept everything before him, it was refused, on the
plea that Hyder had brought the war upon himself, by leaguing with some
Mahratta chiefs.

In the year 1770 the English ministry sent out Sir John Lindsay, with
some frigates, to protect the company's settlements and affairs. Soon
after his arrival., the Peishwa of the Mahrattas, who had long boldly
defied the English, courted a new alliance with them, and intimated
to the Nabob of the Carnatic, that his country should be swept by his
cavalry from en