A History of the Mahrattas v2.c34.3

v2.c34.3

(Feb.)—Lieutenant-Colonel Keating’s detachment sailed from Bombay in the end of February, but in the meantime the army under Hurry Punt Phurkay, accompanied by a part of the troops of Holkar and Sindia, amounting in all to about thirty thousand men, had entered Guzerat in pursuit of Rugonath Rao, which obliged him and Govind Rao to raise the siege of Baroda and retire beyond the Myhie, near to which, at the village of Wassud, (17th.) he was encamped, when on the 17th February the ministerial army arrived in his neighbourhood.