A History of the Mahrattas v1.c28.5

v1.c28.5

Ahmed Shah Abdallee, enraged at these proceedings, crossed the Attock¹ with a large army, the provinces were, unresistingly, again occupied, and the king marched onwards to Delhi. Meer Shahabodeen humbled himself, and Ahmed Shah condescended to forgive him²; but Delhi was plundered, and its unhappy people again subjected to pillage, and its daughters to pollution. The city of Muttra shared a like fate, and Agra was only saved by the breaking out of a violent disease in the camp of the Afghans, which compelled their king to abandon his conquests and hasten beyond the influence of pestilence, to the more congenial climate