the Battle o w P a k i p u t, &g| 



iV O f E 5. 



W. 107. Pi>;darr!es). The Pindarrks are the freebooters of the Mahmtfcs armies, and ufually as numer- 

 ous as tliofe they account their regulars. They are mounted on fmall but hardy horfes, and ferve for plunder 

 only. The chiefs, under whom they engage, enter into certain articles of agreement with the chief com- 

 manding the Mahratta armv, refpefting the divifion of plunder; and the Pindarries alfo have particular 

 conditions, on which they ferve under their chiefs. Their principal ufe is in laying wafle an enemy's country, 

 orth-ir own when invaded ; which they do with great alacrity and effecV; alfo in attacking the baggage and 

 ©a:np followers of an enemy's army. Another thing, which makes them extremely ufe'ful to their own army, 

 is, that every Pindarry has apairofjarge bags on his faddle, which, after his day's excurfion, he in the evening 

 brings into ca n ■, filled with wheat, barley, rice, er fome other ufe ful grain, plundered from the villages, 

 (which is fold in the bazar for fomething below the market price ; fo that ten thoufand Pindarics are at leaft' 

 as ufd'ul to the fuppty of their own army, as an equal number of B-nrmeabs with carriage bullocks would be. 



p. 107. The trohs). Tnts feerris to have been the crifis of the .B how's fortune : had he boldly at 1 - • 

 tacked the Shah while he was paffing the Jumna, he would probably have totally defeated him. 



p. 108. his camp). Colonel Dow b fays, that the Show occupied the lines formerly thrown up by 

 M * :-'>MM r.i> Shah, and that the Durrany Shah polled himfel fin the more fortunate camp of ^Jadir. 

 Shah. ICasi Raja does not notice this, but fays, that theI>HOW dug a trench round his camp. The 

 point however is ol little eonfequence. 



p. 119. January). Colonel Dowe fays, it was 01 the iotri not the 6ch of Jcmad-ulSani: the- reader 

 may believe either, without any injury to the faft of the battle itfelf. Dates are exceedingly inaccurate in 



all onental productions. . 



p. 1 20. tiitft). This may appear extraordinary to thofe who have never feen a large army of horfe 

 gfflopMflg about on a.dufty plain in a hot climate, but is a very natural and true defcription 10 thofe who have. 



If I am notm ft ken, Plutarch mentions, as one of the moft cruel fufferings of Crassus's army, when 

 deflated in Patrhiti, that the Part hians galloped round them continually, and almoft fuffocated the foldiers 

 with duft. . 



p. 122. ctmity). Dattea ju Pateil, the brother of Junkoojee, had been killed the year before 

 In the battle of Badelly, againft Nujeie-ul-Dowlah. 



p. 123. orders). Th ese orders of Ahmed Shah evince much military knowledge: perhaps better 

 can fcarceiy b^ imagined in that fituation of affairs ; and the fuccefs was complete. 



p. 125. tnehantmsnf . The Mahratta army fled in confcquen.ee of the death of Biswas Row their 

 chief. '1 his is always the cafe with MalUk armies. 



