The Sultan seems to have forgotten the lesson they taught him, six or seven years back.

But the next time will be the last, and Tippoo, tiger as he is, will meet the fate he seems bent on provoking.
"But beyond Mysore lies the Mahratta country, and the Mahrattis alone can put thirty thousand horsemen into the field.

They are not like the people of Bengal, who have ever fallen, with scarce an attempt at resistance, under the yoke of one tyrant after another.

The Mahrattis are a nation of warriors.

They are plunderers, if you will, but they are brave and fearless soldiers, and might, had they been united, have had all India under their feet before the coming of the English.