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∗ On 18th July Marquess Wellesley sent orders to Col. Scott in the Deccan, to see that “means might be contrived to enable four of Begam Samru’s battalions then with Sindhia in the Deccan, to join General Wellesley.” (MM. iii. 192.) “Colonel Pohlmann received intelligence from General Perron on the 12th Sept. that the English officers [of Sindhia] had gone to the British settlements.” (Arthur W. Sup. D. iv. 207.) The Marāthi despatches report,—“Samru’s [four] battalions could not get ready [to join in the battle]. Our Brigade (i.e., Mahādji’s First Campoo), four battalions of Michel Felose, and one battalion of Samru were on advanced guard duty, and these alone met the English. . . . The five battalions slew many men on the British side. Three battalions of M. Felose abandoned their guns, and one bat. was totally destroyed or wounded.” *Gul. D. and Kharé, xiv. 6720. A. W. in Gur. ii. 434 and 456.*