A History of the Mahrattas v2.c52.52

v2.c52.52

(Nov. 17.)—Four days after the victory at Deeg, on the morning of the 17th November, General Lake, after a most persevering pursuit, came up with Holkar’s cavalry at Furruckabad, and falling upon them by surprise, put three thousand of them to the sword.¹ General Lake from the 31st October estimated that he had marched at the rate of twenty-three miles daily, and that during the night and day preceding the attack, including the space gone over in the pursuit, his cavalry went upwards of seventy miles in less than twenty-four hours.