Historical and Descriptive Account of British India from the Most Remote Period to the Present Time ...Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1855 - Great Britain |
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... MAHRATTA WAR , AND CONQUEST OF CENTRAL HINDOSTAN . Great Power of the Mahrattas - Shao succeeds as Rajah - Able Adminis- tration of Ballajee Wishwanath - Bajee Rao succeeds - Rise of Hol kar and Sindia - Great Power of the Peishwa ...
... MAHRATTA WAR , AND CONQUEST OF CENTRAL HINDOSTAN . Great Power of the Mahrattas - Shao succeeds as Rajah - Able Adminis- tration of Ballajee Wishwanath - Bajee Rao succeeds - Rise of Hol kar and Sindia - Great Power of the Peishwa ...
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... Mahrattas , invited it is said either by the Mogul court or the subahdar , found their way in vast bodies into Bengal ... Mahratta ditch . Considerable uneasiness , indeed , is supposed to have been felt by him at the accounts which he ...
... Mahrattas , invited it is said either by the Mogul court or the subahdar , found their way in vast bodies into Bengal ... Mahratta ditch . Considerable uneasiness , indeed , is supposed to have been felt by him at the accounts which he ...
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... Mahratta ditch , not being aware that it extended round only part of the circuit . Having overcome this obstacle , the Indians , on the morning of the 18th , opened a general attack on the outposts , de- fended by three batteries ...
... Mahratta ditch , not being aware that it extended round only part of the circuit . Having overcome this obstacle , the Indians , on the morning of the 18th , opened a general attack on the outposts , de- fended by three batteries ...
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... Mahratta commander , united in a confederacy to crush the assailant ; and the English agreed to place an auxiliary ... Mahrattas alone were fully equal to contend with Hyder ; so that the two parties might have been advantageously left ...
... Mahratta commander , united in a confederacy to crush the assailant ; and the English agreed to place an auxiliary ... Mahrattas alone were fully equal to contend with Hyder ; so that the two parties might have been advantageously left ...
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... Mahratta general , who declared his determination not to treat with an opponent who held his legitimate prince in such unworthy captivity ; and a murmur of approbation ran through the assembly . The envoy humbly confessed the charge ...
... Mahratta general , who declared his determination not to treat with an opponent who held his legitimate prince in such unworthy captivity ; and a murmur of approbation ran through the assembly . The envoy humbly confessed the charge ...
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