Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c26.s2.5
Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c26.s2.5
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v2.c26.s2.5
At first fortune seemed to favour him. The strong fort of Ajmir was stormed by a Maratha division (under the local tribute-collector and not by Jayapa), on 21st February 1755. And shortly before this, the city of Jalor, where Bijay Singh’s hereditary hoards were deposited and which was regarded as his safest refuge in a day of adversity, fell into the hands of a body of Ram Singh’s partisans. A mixed Rathor-Maratha force under Jagannath Purohit and Santaji Bābhlé had invested Jodhpur itself and their sap was approaching the walls of the Rathor capital.