A History of the Mahrattas v2.c57.73

v2.c57.73

At Sholapoor, Bajee Rao was joined by a body of horse from Nagpoor under Gunput Rao, to whom we shall hereafter revert. In the meantime General Smith was marching towards the Mahratta army; the Peishwa decamped and moved to the westward, as Gokla conceived he should have no difficulty in passing the British detachment, and avoiding them or not as he thought proper. On the 19th General Smith arrived at Yellapoor; he heard that the Peishwa was on the route from Sholapoor towards Punderpoor. He therefore marched all that night in hopes of coming upon him; but before morning he learnt that he had gone to the northward and was encamped at Ashtah.¹ Taking, therefore, the cavalry and horse artillery, desiring the Raigarh, Sivājī’s former capital; while Colonel Kennedy seized Suvarnadrug and Jaigarh in Ratnāgiri District, with the assistance of the Bombay Marine.