. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . than Niz;im Ally reappeared stronger than ever at Boor-hanpoor, and, Sulabhut Khan joining him, marched forPoona. l)allajcc l^ajee Rao in person moved out with alarge force to Ahmednuggur to meet him, while SewdaseoRao went eastward, encountered and signallv defeated thetwo brothers (Nizam and Sulabhut) near Oordgeer, andforced ihcni to conclude a treaty (1760) by which theMogul possessions in the Ucccan were now confmed to. r/) P5 w Q »; 13 ^ w w ?4 n ^ ?—. w ^ -> -1 r-i (,>. <; <
. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . than Niz;im Ally reappeared stronger than ever at Boor-hanpoor, and, Sulabhut Khan joining him, marched forPoona. l)allajcc l^ajee Rao in person moved out with alarge force to Ahmednuggur to meet him, while SewdaseoRao went eastward, encountered and signallv defeated thetwo brothers (Nizam and Sulabhut) near Oordgeer, andforced ihcni to conclude a treaty (1760) by which theMogul possessions in the Ucccan were now confmed to. r/) P5 w Q »; 13 ^ w w ?4 n ^ ?—. w ^ -> -1 r-i (,>. <; <i1 ^1 t^ (^ < ?v^ u- n s: Q •i: < w =o ^ <--N <7f w J •-o Pi 2; ^ w i- D h4 •^ H < <; <^ Ch w oo o NIZAM ALLY BURNS POONA. ii an insulated space, which must, it seemed, be soon over-whelmed. (Grant Duff, vol. i, p. 594.) But Nizam Ally in1763 seized the first opportunity, and evading the twoHolkars (Dummajee and Mulharjee), who tried to stop him,marched straight on Poona, which he plundered and burnt,pulling down such warras as were not ransomed. Thepeople of Poona at the first alarm skedaddled with asmuch as they could carry to Singurh and the hill fortsof the Konkan, but the pursuit was so rapid that manywere overtaken and many manuscripts and state papersillustrative of Mahratta history were totally destroyed.(Grant Duff, vol. i, p. 635.) Nizam Ally then withdrewto Aurungabad for the rainy season, whence he soon movedout to join the defeated Mogul army
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