A History of the Mahrattas v2.c52.56

v2.c52.56

But the fortunes of Jeswunt Rao, though in a few weeks they had undergone a signal reverse, were not yet destined to close. The situation of his ally, the Raja of Bhurtpoor, was still more desperate than his own, for as a Mahratta freebooter ‘he had still his country and his property on the saddle of his horse,’ but the Jhat Raja, as he himself declared from the first, ‘must stand or fall with his fort.’¹