Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c41.s1.6

v3.c41.s1.6

During this period Sindhia suffered heavy losses: Agra city fell to Ismail Beg on 16th September, Ajmer city to the Jodhpur Rajah on 27th August, the whole of the Doab was lost, and only the fort of Aligarh held out, to fall eventually on the 17th of February next year. While Ismail Beg’s siege of Agra *fort* was going on, a further threat to Sindhia’s power appeared in the person of Prince Jawān Bakht (Jahāndār Shāh) who came out of his asylum at Benares and reached Agra at the beginning of November. But he had no men or money, the English would not and the Nawab of Oudh could not help him in a war against Sindhia; and his own haughty irascible character, even more than the clash betwen their personal ambitions, made him quarrel with Ismail Beg, and the baffled heir to the throne at last went back to British territory (arriving at Farrukhabad about 23rd Feb. 1788). His adventure achieved no other result than to give a good fright to Sindhia and help in pushing that chief beyond the Chambal.