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∗ Delhi. ‘After the fall of Dattaji, Abdali entered Delhi fort. The men of his camp plundered the property of the citizens by violence. For three days great disturbance raged there. On the fourth day the Shah ordered his soldiers to leave the city and dismount outside it.’ [Husain Shahi, 51.] ‘Abdali came back from Narnol and slew and plundered the people of Delhi to an extreme.’ [Muz. 178.] Miskin (204-206) gives a graphic and detailed eye-witness's account of this plunder and slaughter of the city people. On 19th October 1760, the Delhi Chronicle records, “Bhāuji has captured Kunjpurā. Throughout this entire month, a state of death settled on the inhabitants of Delhi city from rumours of the coming of the Shah, who had decided on a battle near Kunjpurā.”