Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c56.s6.11

v4.c56.s6.11

* James Skinner himself had received so little education that he preferred to write in Hindustani. His father could not afford to keep him in a boarding school in Calcutta. He writes that when Jaswant Holkar defeated Hessing’s corps at Ujjain (17 July, 1801), “Sixteen country-born officers, who were all my school-fellows, were killed at their guns. They had all entered the service within a month of each other.” [i. 171.]