'History of the Province of Gohud' [‎14v] (28/72)

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gunah and got his own troops in readiness, and Pattell Sahib
sending for all his chiefs, gave them orders to be ready, and
said to the " Salars " to be immediately prepared with their
troops, but to make no noise or bustle. The whole army being
then ready, came with the greatest silence into the batteries,
and Pattel Sahib himself, remaining in his own tent, gave the
necessary orders with caution and secrecy, and posted hur-
carehs and camels under the fort to bring intelligence every
instant. The whole army remained stationed under the fort,
when four gurries of the night were still left they marched
up towards Oorivajee. At the same moment the people of
Kurrum Khan's battalion, and the body guards, and the
battalion of Porss attacked the battery. Ten or twelve men
first entered the fort, and throwing down ropes, helped all
the others up instantly. Two hundred had entered it in
less than one gurree, and began to engage. The rest of the
Maha Eajah's army surrounded the fort on all sides, and the
pioneers quietly threw up defences. The Sepoys Term used in English to refer to an Indian infantryman. Carries some derogatory connotations as sometimes used as a means of othering and emphasising race, colour, origins, or rank. crept into
the fort like ants and locusts, and having discharged their
pieces, prepared to maintain themselves. The Killuhdar
Rajadhur and Rewamry Doss came also with their forces
and began the attack. The people of the fort were at last
obliged to give way, and the people of the Maha Rajah, by
the Maha Rajah's good fortune, got possession of the fort by
the way of Oorivajee, and Donapour, and Bahttghur, and
advancing to the market-place of the fort, began discharging
their cannon and rockets^ they then drew their swords and
made such use of them as to cause a river of blood. Rajadhur
the Killuhdar, and Rewamry Doss, and Boozam Singh, the
uncle of the Rana, were killed; and the Ranee, the wife of
Rana Chuttee Singh, destroyed herself by an explosion of
gunpowder. The Ranee was a daughter of a Zemindar of
Gujerance; she was married to the Rana about eight years
ago, and at the time of her death was about eighteen. She
was the Rana s second wife, and remained in Gwalior when
the Rana himself had returned to defend Gohud "