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∗ Col. Collins reported to the Governor General from Fathgarh, on 21st April, 1800, "Previous to the total defeat of the Rajput army, and whilst a possibility of restoring the battle still remained, Pratāp Singh formed the resolution of making a vigorous charge on Mr. Pohlmann’s brigade with a thousand select cavalry, but he was dissuaded from carrying this spirited design into execution by his Diwān Rāi Chand." Lakhwā in a letter to Collins put his own loss at 700 men and that of the enemy at "probably above 2000" (P.R.C. ix. pp. 10-14). I disbelieve Skinner, who told the story of the fighting to his friend and biographer, J. B. Fraser, 35 years after the event. (Military Memoirs of Lt. Col. James Skinner, i. 149.)