History of India . s a confederate of Bhaoand had the superintendence of the European artiUery,planted his thundering cannon, with their skilful gun-ners, opposite the fort on the side of the sandy plain,and having made the battlements of the Octagon Towerand the Asad Burj a mark for his lightning-dartingguns, overturned many of the royal edifices. Everyday the tumultuous noise of attack on all sides of thefort filled the minds of the garrison with alarm andapprehension. The overflowing of the Jumna pre-sented an insurmountable obstacle to the crossing ofthe Durrani Shahs army, and hindered it
History of India . s a confederate of Bhaoand had the superintendence of the European artiUery,planted his thundering cannon, with their skilful gun-ners, opposite the fort on the side of the sandy plain,and having made the battlements of the Octagon Towerand the Asad Burj a mark for his lightning-dartingguns, overturned many of the royal edifices. Everyday the tumultuous noise of attack on all sides of thefort filled the minds of the garrison with alarm andapprehension. The overflowing of the Jumna pre-sented an insurmountable obstacle to the crossing ofthe Durrani Shahs army, and hindered it from afford-ing any succour to the besieged. The provisions inthe fort were very nearly expended, and Yakub AhKhan was forced to enter into negotiations for first removed, with his female relatives and prop-erty, from the fort to the domicile of Ali MardanKhan, and then, having crossed the river Jumna fromthence on board a boat, betook himself to the Shahscamp. On the 19th of the aforesaid month and year,. Carved Pillar in Dewan-I-Khas, a Photograph. CAPTUEE OF THE FOET AT DELHI 247 Bhao entered the fort along with Biswas Rao, andtook possession of all the property and goods that hecould find in the old repositories of the royal also broke in pieces the silver ceiling of the Diwan-i-Khas, from which he extracted so much of the pre-cious metal as to be able to coin 1,700,000 rupees outof it. Narad Shankar Brahmin was then appointedby Bhao to the post of governor of the fort. The Durrani Shah, after his engagement with Datta,which terminated in the destruction of the latter, haddespatched Najib-ad-da\ilah to the province of Oudh witha conciliatory epistle, which was, as it were, a treaty offriendship, for the purpose of fetching Nawab Shuja-ad-daulah Bahadur. Najab-ad-daulah accordingly betookhimself by way of Etawa to Kanauj; and about thesame time Nawab Shuja-ad-daulah marched from Luck-now, and made the ferry of Mahdipur, which is oneof t
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