Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 25.10.6

25.10.6

and this he did with a deal of steadiness and activity. At last he arrived in that city, where he put his troops into quarters of refreshment. But whilst he was preparing all the necessaries for commencing early another campaign, Fateh-sing-caicvar, who had got so easily and so cheaply possession of the Gadjrat, but had now become envious of Colonel Godard's prosperity, put himself at the head of his own forces, and took his station in the districts which originally had been in his possession. Whilst such a change was taking place in Gadjrat, Chimnadji, another Marhatta General, who was nephew to Rago-dji-bhosselah, having listened to the instigations and menaces of the Ministers of Poona, set out with a good army from the Great-Naigpoor, his capital, and marched towards Djagennat and Cateck. There he took up his winter quarters, whilst his agents were now repairing to Calcutta, and professing amity and friendship to the English cause. The Governor, who did not trust altogether to their professions, opposed an army of English to the Marhatta army in Cateck; and stationed troops besides at all the passes in the mountains, where those enemies had used to pour into the provinces of Bengal and Bahar. These troops had orders to oppose force by force, should they make any motion that way. But as Haider-naic is now going to cut so great a figure in our history, it is proper to part with our subject for a while, in order to give some account of that extraordinary man.