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Chatauni, half way between Patiali and Sahawar, in the Eta district. The 

 wazir received a graze from a spent shot, and his troops believing him to 

 be dead gave way. A signal victory was obtained by the Pathans. Instead, 

 however, of advancing on Dilhi, Ahmad Khan turned eastwards and occu- 

 pied the whole of the Audh and Allahabad territories. The fort of Allah- 

 abad alone resisted, and after having wasted several months in an unsuc- 

 cessful siege, the nawab was recalled in haste to defend his inherited 

 domains. The wazir with the aid of the Mahrattas had already expelled 

 his troops from the parganahs to the west of Farrukhabad. In April 1751, 

 Nawab Ahmad Khan was invested in the fort of Fathgarh, and a month and 

 some days had elapsed, when Sa'dullah Khan Eohela, who was marching 

 to his relief, having been defeated on the other side of the river, Ahmad 

 Khan made his escape with some difficulty to Anwala, the Eohela head- 

 quarters. After the rains the wazir and the Mahrattas crossed the Gan- 

 ges. The Bangash and Eohela forces then retreated to Chilkya at the 

 foot of the hills, where they entrenched themselves. After some months 

 of desultory jBghting a peace was made. To meet the pay due to the Mah- 

 rattas by Safdar Jang, about one half of the Bangash territory was made 

 over to them. The country left to the nawab, known as the sixteen and 

 a half mahals, consisted of nearly the whole of the Eta and Farrukhabad 

 districts, and about half of the present district of Mainpuri. In the great 

 battle of Panipat in January 1761, Ahmad Khan fought with destruction 

 on the right wing of Ahmad Shah Durani's army. Ahmad Khan died 

 on the 12th July, 1771, the day that Shah 'Alam entered Farrukhabad on 

 his way from Allahabad to Dilhi. 



Ahmad Khan's eldest surviving son, Diler Himmat Khan, succeeded 

 under the title of Muzaffar Jang. In 1774, this nawab became tributary 

 to Shuja'-ud-daula, nawab-wazir of Audh, paying to him foar and a half 

 lakhs of rupees annually. About the year 1786 this tribute was made over 

 to the English in part payment of the subsidiary force stationed at Fath- 

 garh. On the 23rd October, 1796, Muzaffar Jang died suddenly from 

 poison, supposed to have been administered at the instigation of his eldest 

 son Eustam 'Ali Khan. This eldest son was deported to Lakhnau by Asaf - 

 ud-daula, and the second son Imdad Husain Khan, Nasir Jang, succeeded. 

 In this nawab's time was negociated the treaty of the 24th June, 1802, 

 (Aitchison VII, 36,) making over the Farrukhabad territory in return for 

 an annual payment. Nasir Jang died of hard drinking on the 1st February, 

 1813. He was succeeded by his minor son Khadim Husain Khan, Shaukat 

 Jang. He died at Dilhi on the 24th July, 1823, of small-pox. Tajammul 

 Husain Khan, his son, succeeded. On his death in November 1846, he was 

 followed by his cousin Tafazzul Husain Khan. This nawab joined the 

 rebels in the Mutiny, but his life having been promised at his surrender, 



