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Captain Yorke leading the forlorn hope at Masulipatam (the Commons title of the plate): the storm of 7 April 1759, in which Orme says Yorke led the second division and fell with a ball through each thigh (Cassell's Illustrated History of India, 1879)

Wood engraving of a night assault on a rampart, an officer in a tricorne hat raising his sword at the head of soldiers with bayonets while defenders in turbans fight back and wounded men lie at their feet.
Wood engraving of a night assault on a rampart, an officer in a tricorne hat raising his sword at the head of soldiers with bayonets while defenders in turbans fight back and wounded men lie at their feet.
Type
Drawing
Creator
"C. R.", in Cassell's Illustrated History of India, Vol. I (London, 1879), via Wikimedia Commons
Date
1879
Licence
Public domain
From
Robert Orme, A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan, Vol. II (Madras reprint) (opens in a new tab), 1861, 484–487
Original
commons.wikimedia.org (opens in a new tab)
Appears in
East India Company, French East India Company, Francis Forde, Machilipatnam, Forts & warfare