A History of the Mahrattas v2.c43.17

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forces of Bēgam Samrū about 1782, and remained in her service until 1791, when Tukājī Holkar offered him a large salary to raise and discipline four battalions of infantry. In 1798 the intervention of Amīr Khān, the Pindārī leader, saved him from being assassinated by Jasvant Rāo Holkar, by whom he was subsequently reinstated in his command. He and his troops submitted to Colonel Vandeleur at Mathurā on November 30, 1803. Opinions differ as to Dudrenec’s character. Some (vide Keene) have described him as a gallant and courteous gentleman; others describe him as unfortunate as a military commander and possessed of very questionable ideas of loyalty and fidelity. (Compton, European Military Adventurers of Hindustan, pp. 347–51.)