at. D£M)f to destmfiMliJpmm't'^iMT^'ttii-tlms-^^i^^^ hk miemd the PenJ 

 jdb early in 'ij6q, 'a!Td:!ds^¥^ran!^l%^^sleiof..th:at.^ou^ v/ith a nume-f': 

 rous army, :defeatmgrafs;^Yiii|jersing;ji:ke .Bikksiii every diredlioii. That 

 se6t, iinab!e.to raale^ahy staBd'ag-amk ,:the'aniiy of the Ahddli, -^UFsued 

 their •oid^'plan" of Teti?eating- ne^.tie ^mouiitaias'f and ^'Gblle<?l:ed -a larg© 

 force iii'the -nGrthefft -distrisSis &f ''Sarhind, a^SiSfta¥ice?c>f-" above -orie hun^' 

 dred miks ' from X^^'F^y- where'- the- army'.' of •A'fiM&D - Shah was en- 

 camped,- - Here they' Wn^eived'-theW^lveS' -to -feei in perfe(?!: safety? 

 but that priRGe- made one of '-thos^ "i^pid - 'movejnfettts for which he 

 Was so^ Celebrated, and ^reaching thie-5'M '^rmy-'"'On t!|e-. 'second day, com-i' 

 pletely surprised, and defeated it with great slaughter. .In- thisJaaioii, 

 which wrs fought in February, 17C2, the Sikhs are said to have lost 

 upwards of twenty thousand men, and the remainder fi'id °nto the hills^ 

 abandoning a]] the ]o\yer L.-^iirt^-i-s to the Mi;h:^. ?, w!?j con^Tiitted every 

 ravao-e that a barbarous and savage enemy could devise. Amnisar was 

 razed to the ground, and the sacred reservoir again choaked ^\\t^ its ruins. 

 Pyramids* were erocl:ed, and covered with the heads of slaughtered 

 Sikhs; and it is mentioned thar Ahmed Shah caused tlic wa!h. of those 

 mosques, which tlie Sikhs had poliulcd, to be washed with their blood, 

 that the contamination might be removed, and the insult oflered to the 

 religion of Muhammed, expiated.-l^ 



This species of savage retaliation appears to have animated, instead of 

 fiepressing iha courage of the Sihh';, who, though they could not venture 

 to meet Ahmed Shah's army in aclion, harassed it with an incessant pre- 



■*■' This is a very common UDa..^e a.rioigst eastern conqvieroro. I'lie hi^to.-y ofJvsani'r, 



Kha'n, Taimur- and Na'uir Shah, afford many exaniples oftljis- mode of treating tlieir. 

 jji?aiiqmslied eaemies, '.,._■ 



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