the Battle of Pahip-ut, nm 



men and horfes in that quarter fuddcnly diminifli, he fent me to examine 

 anto the caufe. I found the Grand Vizier in an agony of rage and defpair* 

 reproaching his men for quitting him. " Our country is far off, my friends, 

 " faid he, whither do you fly? s * But no one regarded his orders orexhor- 

 ftations. Seeing me, he faid : «« ride to my fon Shujah-ul-Dowjlah, and 

 " tell him that, if he does not fupport me immediately, I mud perifh." 

 I returned with this meffige to the Navab, who faid that the enemy being fa 

 near, and likely to charge hib divifion, the worft confequences might fol- ; 

 low to the whole army, if he made any movement at that time,which might 

 enable the- enemy to. pais through the line. 



The N.wab's divifion confifted of only two thoufand horfe, one-thoufand 

 muikerecrs, with twenty pieces of cannon, and fome fwivels : but they 

 flood in clofe order, and fhowed fo good a countenance that the enemy 

 made no attempt upon it: Once or twice they advanced pretty near,* and 

 feeiw'd as if they would charge us, but they did not. 



On the left of the Navab*s divifion was that of Nujeib-ul-DqwlaHj, 

 who had about eight thoufand Rohilla infantry with him, and near fix 

 thoufand horfe. They advanced flowly under cover of a kind of breaft- 

 works of fand, which were thrown up- by a great number of Bildars who 

 were with them, and who, having finifhed one, advanced the diilance of 

 half a mufket fhot in front of that, under cover of their own people, 

 and threw up another; to which- the troops then advanced, while a third 

 was thrown up in the fame manner. They had got on above a cofs in 

 this method, and were within a long mufket. mot of the enemy, Nujeiu- 

 ul-Dowlah faying, «* that it behoved him to exert himfelf, as he was 

 ** the perfon moft deeply intereftcd in the event of that day, the reft be- 



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