PALICAUD, or PALGATCHERRY, a fortress of considerable strength in India, which commands the passage between the two coasts of Malabar and Coromandel, by way of the Trichinopoly and Coimbetore countries: there is also a communication with it through the Nayre country. It was held by the English; and was of great importance to them, when Coimbetore was in the hands of Tippoo, because, by our holding this place on the west, and Dindigul on the east of Coimbetore, that province was of little use to him in the time of war, without a very large force to protect it. But the fall of that sovereign, and the reduction of his territories, have effected a total change of circumstances. See Memoir of a Map of the Peninsula of India by Major Rennel.