A History of the Mahrattas, Volume 3Longmans, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826 - India |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
alliance Amrut Rao Appa Sahib army artillery attack Bajee Rao Balloba Tattya Bappoo Baroda battalions Bhurtpoor body Boigne Bombay Bramin British government British troops Buhadur Bundelcund camp Captain cavalry Colonel command Deccan Dessaye detachment districts division Doulut Rao Elphinstone endeavoured enemy English force Gaekwar garrison Gokla governor-general Govind Rao guns Guzerat Hindoostan Holkar horse hostile Hurry Punt Hyderabad Ismael Beg Jagheer Jagheerdars Jeswunt Rao joined Kistna lacks of rupees Lake Lord Cornwallis Lord Lake Mahadajee Sindia Mahdoo Rao Mahratta Malwa ment minister Moghuls Nagpoor Nana Furnuwees native Nizam Ally occasion officers party Patans Peishwa person Pindharees plunder Poona possession Pureshram Bhow Putwurdhun Raja of Kolapoor Rajpoots Rao's Rastia regiment regular infantry resident Rughoojee Bhonslay Satara sent Sepoys Sewdasheo Shastree Shirzee Rao Ghatgay siege Sindia Sir John Malcolm soon surrender territory Thomas Hislop thousand Tippoo treaty treaty of Bassein Trimbukjee Umeer Khan village Wellesley whilst
Popular passages
Page 90 - Sindia, though much of his success is attributable to a combination of circumstances ; he was a man of great political sagacity, and of considerable genius ; of deep artifice, of restless ambition, and of implacable revenge. With a high opinion of his personal address, he generally failed where he attempted to exercise it ; and, in ebullitions of anger, to which he was prone, he frequently exposed what he most wished to conceal. His...
Page 67 - ... from the time of Hyder Ally; and to deliver two of his sons as hostages for the due performance of the conditions. An armistice had taken place for two days, the hostages had already arrived in the English camp, upwards of one...
Page 217 - ... arrival. Orders were at the same time issued to the governments of Madras and Bombay, and to the resident at Hyderabad, confirming the requisitions of Colonel Close for the assemblage of troops. The Peishwa, quitting Raigurh, proceeded to Mhar, whence he...
Page 435 - Pattison, adjutant of the infantry battalion, lying mortally wounded, being shot through the body, no sooner heard that the gun was taken, than getting up he called to the grenadiers
Page 415 - October, their ffuns were yoked, their horses saddled, and their infantry in readiness. This intelligence was brought to Mr. Elphinstone a little before midnight of the 28th, and for a moment it became a question, whether self-defence, under all circumstances, did not require that the attack should be anticipated. It was an hour of anxiety : — the British cantonment and the residency were perfectly still, and the inhabitants...
Page 134 - October, he deliberately threw himself from a terrace in his palace, fractured two of his limbs, and was much wounded by the tube of a fountain on which he fell.
Page 196 - and with him," says Colonel Palmer, " has departed all the wisdom and moderation of the Mahratta government." Nana Furnuwees was certainly a great statesman. His principal defects originated in the want of personal courage, and in an ambition not always restrained by principle. In the latter unhappy years of his life, on the testimony of English as well as Mahratta authority, he is 1 entitled to the high praise of having acted with I the feelings and sincerity of a patriot.
Page 279 - CHAP. xx. ing on the ground of encampment, in order of battle, . till half-past nine. The infantry then moved off, the cavalry being left on the ground with orders to follow in half an hour, and to send Colonel Monson the earliest intelligence of Holkar's motions. The infantry met with no interruption ; but after marching about twelve miles, a report reached them, that at a considerable distance in their rear Lieutenant Lucan's cavalry had been attacked by the whole of that of Holkar. Colonel Monson...
Page 265 - ... confederates (Sindhia and the Bhonslay, or Berar Rajah) tried another battle at Argaom, but were again defeated with very considerable loss ; and they soon after (in December) accepted the terms offered them, which, as respects Sindhia, were the cession to the British Government and its allies of his territory between the Jumna and Ganges, and all situated to the northward of Jeypoor, Joodpoor, and Gohud : the forts of Ahmednuggur and Baroach with their districts, his possessions between the...
Page 163 - Rao reminded him of the insolence, violence, and cruelty which he and his servants had used, in numberless instances, towards the servants and subjects of his government, in the city, and even in his own palace ; he declared that " the contempt and disrespect thus shown towards his person and authority he could bear no longer, and therefore ordered Sindhia to remove to Jamgaon.