A History of the Mahrattas v2.c42.29

v2.c42.29

With regard to the operations of the other troops at a distance from the grand army, Bulwunt Soob Rao, the officer sent by Hurry Punt to besiege Mudgeery, did not succeed in gaining possession of it, but he left a detachment in the Pettah and went on to Makleedroog, Bhusmag, and Ruttengerry, of all which he took possession.¹ The army of Nizam Ally, with the two Madras battalions which continued to the northward, took Gandicottah on the Pennar and laid siege to Gurrumcondah.