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district.” Fateli Shahi’s action at this moment lias been well described 
in the annexed petition of the sons of Babn Dhujju Singh (of whom 
we shall presently speak) forwarded to Mr. Thomas Graham, Acting 
President and Member of the Board of Revenue, Fort William, by the 
Acting Collector, of Saran, with his letter of 11th July, 1805. In it we 
find that, “in 1189 F.S. (1781 A.D.) when the Governor-General was 
at Benares to punish the rebel Raja Chait Singh he had ordered the 
different divisions of the army including the battalion stationed at Bara- 
gaon in Pergunah Kalyanpur Kowadi to join him at that place. Raja 
Fateh Shahi availing himself of the opportunity offerred by their ab¬ 
sence, came with Ajeet Mull and other zemindars from Gorakhpur with a 
body of 20,000 men to Baragaon and attacked and plundered the station. 
Mr. Gronie, the Collector of the district, on receipt of this intelligence 
wrote,a parwanah to Dhujju Singh desiring him to join the tehsildar 
and afford his assistance in driving Maharaja Fateh Shahi beyond the 
boundary of the company’s provinces. Dhujju Singh immediately call¬ 
ed his adherents amounting to about one thousand men, and after unre¬ 
mitting exertions for eighteen days succeeded in defeating Fateh Shahi in 
battle, and at length obliged him to retreat to the jungles with the loss 
of many hundreds of the people who fell in different engagements. 
Dhujju Singh and his sons were also severely wounded when Major 
Lucas with a reinforcement of regular troops came to his assistance and 
uniting his forces with those of Dhujju Singh, whom for their gallant 
conduct he honoured by giving the lead in action, soon after drove Fateh 
Shahi out of the District. 1 That gentleman reported to the Government 
the zeal and meritorious behaviour of Dhujju Singh, and the Governor- 
General was pleased to send for Dhujju Singh to Benares, bestowed on 
him a hhelat of gold cloth and the usual habitments with many other 
distinguished marks of his favour, and promised that when the Governor- 
General would return to Patna he would dismiss him with further 
honorary rewards, and at the same time ordering the Dewan, Canto Babu, 
to furnish whatever he might require for his expenses. The Governor- 
General then Tvent to Bijugarh, and when he returned from thence to 
Calcutta, Dhujju Singh intended to have gone with him, but owing to the 
wounds he had received in the battles he was unable to do so. When 
the Governor-General reached Calcutta he issued orders to Mr. Grome 
directing him to pay a pension of Rs. 200 per month for the main¬ 
tenance of Dhujju Singh and the widows and orphans of those killed 
or wounded in the fight.” 
1 There still exist at Baragaon the tombs of the European officers killed in this 
fight. There is no tablet on them denoting their names. 
