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... Peshwah at Poonah . Influence of Scindiah . - British Troops ordered to retire . Colonel Wellesley ordered to Madras ... Peshwah's Force . - Flight of the Peshwah . A British Army assembled at Hurryhur . General Wellesley enters the ...
... Peshwah at Poonah . Influence of Scindiah . - British Troops ordered to retire . Colonel Wellesley ordered to Madras ... Peshwah's Force . - Flight of the Peshwah . A British Army assembled at Hurryhur . General Wellesley enters the ...
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... Peshwah , of whom mention will presently be made . Hyderabad was the Nizam's capital , lying about 300 miles north of Madras . Before mentioning the Mahratta states , it may be useful to notice the great divisions of India . Hin- dostan ...
... Peshwah , of whom mention will presently be made . Hyderabad was the Nizam's capital , lying about 300 miles north of Madras . Before mentioning the Mahratta states , it may be useful to notice the great divisions of India . Hin- dostan ...
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... Peshwah , a feeble and timid prince , gave great disquietude to the Mahrattas in alliance with the Company , as well as to the Nizam ; so that , in the event of an attack upon the British from Mysore , both the Nizam and the Peshwah ...
... Peshwah , a feeble and timid prince , gave great disquietude to the Mahrattas in alliance with the Company , as well as to the Nizam ; so that , in the event of an attack upon the British from Mysore , both the Nizam and the Peshwah ...
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... Peshwah or the Nizam . A matter which very early drew the atten- tion of the governor - general was the footing that Frenchmen had obtained among the native princes . Our ally the Nizam had , as we have already said , a large force ...
... Peshwah or the Nizam . A matter which very early drew the atten- tion of the governor - general was the footing that Frenchmen had obtained among the native princes . Our ally the Nizam had , as we have already said , a large force ...
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... Peshwah to be prepared to afford the assistance stipulated for in the treaty with them : the amount of which , how- ever , was not , owing to a strange oversight , duly specified in the official document . The governor - general appears ...
... Peshwah to be prepared to afford the assistance stipulated for in the treaty with them : the amount of which , how- ever , was not , owing to a strange oversight , duly specified in the official document . The governor - general appears ...
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