. India, past and present / C. H. Forbes-Lindsay. ter tookpost in the slightly fortified village of Korygaum,where they were attacked by the Peshwas army ofthirty thousand, horse and foot, commanded by thecruel but intrepid Trimbukji Dainglia. Withoutfood and but scantily supplied with water, the handfulof defenders held their own against incessant attacks,which lasted through all that day and the followingnight. Time and again tlie enemy penetrated to theirvery midst, and were driven oif, after desperate hand-to-hand struggles. On the morning of the 2dBaji Rao, having no further stomach for t
. India, past and present / C. H. Forbes-Lindsay. ter tookpost in the slightly fortified village of Korygaum,where they were attacked by the Peshwas army ofthirty thousand, horse and foot, commanded by thecruel but intrepid Trimbukji Dainglia. Withoutfood and but scantily supplied with water, the handfulof defenders held their own against incessant attacks,which lasted through all that day and the followingnight. Time and again tlie enemy penetrated to theirvery midst, and were driven oif, after desperate hand-to-hand struggles. On the morning of the 2dBaji Rao, having no further stomach for the fight, inwhich he had lost five hundred men, withdrew. Cap-tain Stauntons casualties embraced more than one-third of his entire force and two-thirds of his Englishofficers. Run to earth at last, the wily Peshwa adopted hisold, cringing tactics, betrayed Trimbukji and others,who had stood by him to the last, and professed themost sincere repentance. The old rascals marvelousgood luck never deserted him. Not only was his Tomb of Jahanara Begfam. POONA. 153 worthless life spared, but the British GoverDinent,with criminal generosity, allowed him to pass theremainder of it in pompous ease on a pension of800,000 rupees a year. Crawford thus sums up the character of the lastPeshwii: Baji Riio had not one redeeming- point inhis character; he had no natural instincts of familyaffection ; he had no bowels of mercy ; he had noreligious feeling, though ho was intensely super-stitious. He never had a friend or ally but at sometime or other he betrayed or sacrificed him ; he didnot know what gratitude meant. He never made apromise or swore an oath that he did not break it; henever entered into a treaty or an agreement that hedid not, while he signed, think how he might evade was conceited as a peacock, but feeble at a crisisas a worm; he roared like a lion, but he ran awaylike a hare. He never told the truth, even by acci-dent, or to himself; he trusted no one, and, in theworst sens
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