A History of the Mahrattas v2.c56.37

v2.c56.37

¹ [This was Jean Baptiste de la Fontaine Filose, the younger son of Michael Filose. When his father fled, Jean Baptiste was at Delhi, where his brother Fidèle divided with him the battalions they had inherited. He fought against George Thomas with this force in 1801. Four of his battalions were beaten at Assaye, and he himself left Sindia’s service after this defeat; but he subsequently rejoined Sindia, and was the only military adventurer who survived the disasters of 1803. His descendants are to-day employed in the service of Sindia; one of them, Sir Michael Filose, being an architect at Gwālior. Jean Baptiste was eventually removed from the service of the Gwālior State after the war of 1843, between Sindia and the British, and the battles of Mahārājpur and Panniar. He was at that time Commander-in-Chief of the Gwālior State army. (Compton, Military Adventurers, &c., pp. 352-4.) For an account of his ‘kingdom-taking’ expedition, see Sleeman’s Rambles, &c., ed. V. A. Smith, 1915, pp. 293-4. All the territories which he took on this occasion were subsequently confirmed to Sindia by the British Government.]