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∗ That battle was delivered to Lake on the initiative of the sepoys in Delhi is also the testimony of Pester, who notes in his Diary, “The enemy felt so confident of the effect of their artillery, that it was said their officers could not restrain them, and that they were resolved to decide the contest on the Doab side of the Jamunā.” [War and Sport, 172.] James Skinner, who was present at Aligarh at this time, reported that Sindhia’s troops in Delhi, “finding that Bourquien was as bad as Perron, put him in confinement, and one of the native commandants, named Sarwar Khan, taking the command, twelve battalions crossed the Jamunā” to Patparganj. [Fraser, i. 275.] † The Kāns or Saccharum spontaneum, growing 12 to 15 feet high.