GENERAL HISTORY. 



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portion of tumbrils and stores, 

 fell into his hands ; with three 

 elephants, nearly 200 camels, and 

 a variety of valuable property. 



A report vi^as afterwards made 

 to the Governor in Council at 

 Bombay, from Brigadier General 

 Munro of his progress in occu- 

 pying the southern part of the 

 Peishwa's territory. 



Lieutenant Col. Prother in- 

 forms the Adjutant General of 

 his taking on the 10th of May the 

 important fort of Ryghur, a place 

 of stupendous height, with an 

 extensive area on the top. The 

 garrison held out a flag for terms ; 

 and after three days of communi- 

 cation and treaty, the Lieutenant 

 Col. was induced to allow them 

 honourable conditions, such as 

 marching out with their arms and 

 private property. There was 

 found in the fort the wife of the 

 late Peishwa, with public pro- 

 perty, in specie, to the amount 

 of 5 lacs. 



The India-Board on Oct. 10, 

 communicated a despatch from 

 the Governor in Council at 

 Bombay, containing a report 

 from Brigadier- Gen. Tho. Munro, 

 to the Hon. Mountstuart Elphin- 

 ston, dated May 11, to the fol- 

 lowing effect. The General 

 begins with referring to a former 

 report, in which he mentions that 

 Gunput Row Paunsee had re- 

 turned hither the day before, 

 and was encamped under the 

 guns of the fort. Yesterday 

 morning (says the General) 1 

 carried the outward pettah by 

 escalade, and made a lodgment 

 in the inner pettah, where the 

 Arabs, assisted by the garrison, 

 continued for a considerable time 

 to defend the houses on that side 



of the fort. Just as we got pos- 

 session of the outward pettah, 

 Gunput Rowe led a considerable 

 body of his infantry, with a few 

 hundred horse, round by the 

 eastern side of the fort, and 

 opened five guns upon our 

 reserve. Finding our battery 

 did not silence these guns, I 

 ordered them to be charged, and 

 carried three of them ; the other 

 two having been withdrawn under 

 the fire of the fort. Gunput 

 Row w^as wounded, and Victul 

 Punt Tattish killed, besides se- 

 veral others of less note, at their 

 guns, and in their retreat. 



Having understood that the 

 enemy were going about four in 

 the morning from their camp, 

 1 ordered out our small body of 

 cavalry under Brigadier-General 

 Pritzler to pursue them ; and 

 fortunately Dhooly Khan came 

 into camp just before with 300 

 horse, and joined in the pursuit. 

 They overtook the enemy about 

 seven miles from the camp, and 

 pursued them five miles further, 

 only giving over as the night 

 closed in. Between 700 and 

 800 w^ere left killed or wounded 

 on the field. The enemy were 

 about 5,000 infantry, and 6 or 

 700 horse ; the latter of whom all 

 escaped. But the infantry who 

 got off threw away their arms, 

 so I hope I may congratulate 

 you on the complete defeat and 

 dispersion of Bajee Row's in- 

 fantry. 



The garrison now consists of 

 only 800 or 1 ,000 infantry, and 

 our mortars are playing on the 

 fort from the inner pettah since 

 morning. 



A communication to the India- 

 Board on November Sth, relates 



the 



