"In this battle Tipu sustained a loss of nearly two thousand, including some of his most valuable officers; whilst the British casualties amounted to only sixty-six men" (Carter 1861, p. 3); "The loss of the English was sixty-nine men, that of the Sultan more than a thousand" (Mill & Wilson 1858, p. 86). Mill, James; Wilson, Horace Hayman (1858), The history of British India, vol. 6 (5 ed.), J. Madden, pp. 85–86
