"رحلة من البنغال إلى إنجلترا، عبر الجزء الشمالي من الهند وكشمير وأفغانستان وبلاد فارس وصولاً إلى روسيا مروراً ببحر قزوين. بقلم جورج فورستر. في الخدمة المدنية لشركة الهند الشرقية في مجلّدين. المجلد I." [‎١‎٥‎٩] (٣٤٢/١٨٤)

FORSTER'S TRAVELS.
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In the year 1772, a Mahratta array, coramanded by the chiefs,
Scindia, Halcar, and Hurry Punt, penetrating into Hindoftan,
laid wafte the Duab, and pofibffed themfelves of the Etajoh dif-
triels, together with all the territory of Ahmed Khan Bungifh, ex
cept the town and environs of Furruckabad. An invafion fo for
midable had alarmed the Rohilla chiefs, who, on the approach of
the Mahrattas, folicited the Vizier to procure the aid of an Englifli
brigade 5 for which they offered the fum of forty lacks of rupees.
The Vizier, anxious for the fafety of his own country, on the con
fines of which the enemy were already encamped, accepted, with
out hefitation, a propofal that would enable him to defray the ex-
pences of a body of troops, from which he himfelf would derive
an efFential benefit; and he, fome time in the year 1772, applied
to the Engiilli Government, for a fupply of forces to defend his
dominions againfl the threatened invafion of the Mahrattas. Con
formably to this requifition, an Englifh brigade proceeded to Be
nares, whence a detachment of three native battalions, joined by
the forces of the Vizier, marched to the frontiers of Rohilcund ;
the interiour parts of which the Mahrattas were then laying wafte*
The commencement of the periodical rains, and the near approach
of the combined army, obliged them to rapidly crofs the Ganges.
The Mahrattas, in the following year,* again entered Rohilcund
where they committed much devaftation 5 but they retreated on
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