Riyaz al-salatin 114.1.5

114.1.5

At length after successive onslaughts, Nawab Qasim Ali Khan's army triumphed, and engaging in capturing and killing slew all the English, and plundered their factories. But Sadru-l-Haq Khan, Faujdar of Dinajpur, and the Rajah of Bardwan held back their hands from this wretched work. account of these events is neither so detailed nor so lucid as that of the Seiru-l-Muta'akherin, whose author Ghulam Husain Khan was an actor in, or actual spectator of, most of these scenes. From the Seir, it appears that after the re-capture of Patna, the next battle between the English and the Nawab's troops was fought at Katwah. The Nawab's Faujdar of Birbhum, Muhammad Taqi Khan, fought at this battle most gallantly, but his gallantry was of no avail, as Syed Muhammad Khan, Deputy Nazim of Murshidabad, failed, owing to jealousy that he bore, to support him, and prevented Jafar Khan, Alam Khan, and Shaikh Haibatu-l-lah also from re-inforcing him. (See Seir, Vol. II, pp. 729 to 731). After this, the English with Mir Jafar entered Murshidabad (Seir, Vol. II, p. 731). The news of the fall of his brave officers Muhammad Taqi Khan, disconcerted the Nawab, who hurried up re-inforcements under Sumroo, Mallear Armenian, and Asadullah, and directed them to concentrate at Suti with the vanquished troops of Katwah. Major Adams commanded the English army. At the battle of Suti, the Nawab's troops were defeated, and the English won the victory (See Seir, Vol. II, pp. 732-733).