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enemy_n	army_n	raise_v	siege_n	1,147	5	9.1227	5	false

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A27515	The history of the late revolution of the empire of the Great Mogol together with the most considerable passages for 5 years following in that empire : to which is added, a letter to the Lord Colbert, touching the extent to Indostan, the circulation of the gold and silver of the world, to discharge it self there, as also the riches, forces, and justice of the same and the principal cause of the decay of the states of Asia / by Mons. F. Bernier ... English'd out of French.; Histoire de la dernière révolution des Etats du Grand Mogol. English	Bernier, François, 1620-1688.; Oldenburg, Henry, 1615?-1677.	1676 (1676)	Wing B2044; ESTC R16888	130,833	407

made hard shift to get to the Raja Katche unhappy even herein that he perish'd not himself in this March This Raja at first gave him a very good reception even so far as to promise him assistance with all his Forces provided he would give his Daughter in Marriage to his Son But Jesseigne soon wrought as much with this Raja as he had done with ●essomseigne So that Dara one day seeing the kindness of this Barbarian cooled upon a sudden and that consequently his Person was in danger there he betakes himself to the pursuit of his Expedition to Tatabakar To relate how I got away from those Robbers the Koullis in what manner I moved them to compassion how I saved the best part of my small Treasure how we became good friends by the means of my profession of Physick my Servants perplexed as well as my self swearing that I was the greatest Physitian of the World and that the People of Dara at their going away had ill treated me and taken from me all my best things How after having kept me with them seven or eight days they had so much kindness and generosity as to lend me an Oxe and to conduct me so far that I was in sight of Amadevad And lastly how from thence after some days I returned to Dehli having lighted on an occasion to go with a certain Omrah passing thither in which Journey I met from time to time on the way with Carkasses of Men Elephants Oxen Horses and Camels the remainder of that unfortunate Army of Dara These are things I say I must not insist upon to describe them Whilst Dara advanced towards Tatabakar the War continues in Bengale and much longer than was believed Sultan Sujah putting forth his utmost and playing his last Game against Emir-Jemla Yet this did not much trouble Aureng-Zebe who knew 't was a great way between Bengale and Agra and was sufficiently convinced of the prudence and valour of Emir-Jemla That which disquieted him much more was that he saw Soliman Chekouh so near for from Agra to the Mountains 't is but eight days journey whom he could not master and who perpetually allarmd him by the rumours that went continually about as if he were coming down the Mountains with the Raja 'T is certainly very hard to draw him thence But behold how he manages the matter to compass it He maketh the Raja Jesseigne write one Letter after another to the Raja of Serenaguer promising him very great things if he would surrender Soliman Chekouh to him and menacing War at the same time if he should obstinately keep him The Raja answers that he would rather lose his Estate than do so unworthy an action And Aureng-Zebe seeing his resolution taketh the Field and marcheth directly to the foot of the Hills and with an infinite number of Pike-men causeth the Rocks to be cut and the passage to be widen'd But the Raja laughs at all that neither hath he much cause to fear on that side Aureng-Zebe may cut long enough they are Mountains inaccessible to an Army and stones would be sufficient to stop the Forces of four Indostans so that he was constrained to turn back again Dara in the mean time approacheth to the Fortress of Tatabakar and when he was but two or three days journey off he received News that Mir-baba who had long held it besieged had at length reduced it to extremity As I afterwards learned of our French and other Franguis that were there a pound of Rice and Meat having cost there above a Crown and so of other Victuals in proportion Yet the Governour held out made Sallies which extremely incommoded the Enemy and shew'd all possible prudence courage and fidelity deriding the endeavours of the General Mir-baba and all the menaces and promises of Aureng-Zebe And this also I learned afterwards of my Countrey-men the French and of all those other Franguis that were with him who added that when he heard that Dara was not far off he redoubled his liberalities and knew so well to gain the hearts of all his Souldiers and to encourage them to do bravely that there was not one of them that was not resolved to sally out upon the Enemy and to hazard all to raise the Siege and to make Dara enter and that he also knew so well to cast fear and terrour into the Camp of Mir-baba by sending Spies about very cunningly to assure that they had seen Dara approach with great resolution and very good Forces that if he had come as was believed he would do every moment the Army of the Enemy was for disbanding upon his appearance and even in part to go over to him But he is still too unfortunate to undertake any thing prosperously Believing therefore that to raise the Siege with such an handful of Men as he had was impossible he did deliberate to pass the River Indus and to endeavour to get into Persia although that also would have had mighty difficulties and inconveniencies by reason of the Desarts and the small quantity of good waters in those parts besides that upon those Frontiers there are but mean Rajas and Patans who acknowledge neither the Persian nor the Mogol But his Wife did very much diswade him from it for this weak reason that he must if he did so expect to see his Wife and Daughter Slaves of the King of Persia that that was a thing altogether unworthy of the Grandeur of his Family and 't was better to dye than to undergo this infamy Dara being in great perplexity remembred that there was thereabout a certain Patan powerful enough called Gion-Kan whose Life he had formerly saved twice when Chah-Jehan had commanded he should be cast under the feet of an Elephant for having rebelled divers times He resolved to go to him hoping that he could give him sufficient Succours to raise the Siege of Tatabakar making account that thence he would take his Treasure and that going from thence and gaining Kandahar he could cast himself into the Kingdom of Caboul having great hopes of Mohabet-Kan who was Governour of it because he was both potent and valiant well beloved of his Countrey and had obtained this Government by his Dara's favour But his Grandchild Sepe-Chekouh yet but very young seeing his design cast himself at his Feet intreating him for God's sake not to enter into the Countrey of that Patan His Wife and Daughter did the same remonstrating to him that he was a Robber a revolted Governour that he would infallibly betray him that he ought not to stand upon the raising of the Siege but rather endeavour to gain Caboul that the thing was not impossible forasmuch as Mir-baba was not like to quit the Siege to follow him and to hinder him from getting thither Dara being carried head-long by the force of his unhappy Destiny rejected this counsel and would hearken to nothing of what was proposed to him saying as was true that the March would be very difficult

such a person as you would be content to let your self be laid in prison In the interim I could make use of part of your Army and of your Artillery as you shall judge most proper and convenient You also could furnish me with a Sum of Money as you have frequently offered it and besides methinks I might tempt Fortune further and we might together take our measures to see in what manner I had best to demean my self if you would also permit that I might cause you to be transported into the Fortress of Daulet-Abad where you should be Master and that there I might have you kept by my own Son Sultan Mazum or Sultan Mahmoud this would yet better palliate the matter and I see not what Dara could justly say of it nor how he could reasonably treat your Wife and Children ill Emir whether it were by reason of the Friendship he had sworn to Aureng-Zebe or for the great promises made to him or the apprehension he had of seeing near him Sultan Mazum who stood by very pensive and well armed and Sultan Mahmoud who looked grim upon him for his coming away at the sollicitation of his Brother not at that of his and had at his very entrance lift up his Foot as if he would have hit him whatever of these considerations might induce him consented to all what Aureng-Zebe desired and approved of the Expedient to suffer himself to be imprison'd so that Aureng-Zebe being no sooner gone but the Great Master of the Artillery was seen to approach with some fierceness to Emir and to command him in the Name of Aureng-Zebe to follow him locking him up in a Chamber and there giving him very good words whilst all the Souldiery that Aureng-Zebe had thereabout went to their Arms. The report of the detention of Emir-Jemla was no sooner spread but a great tumult arose and those whom he had brought along with him although astonish'd yet put themselves into a posture of rescuing him and with their Swords drawn ran to force the Guards and the Gate of his Prison which was easie for them to do For Aureng-Zebe had not with him sufficient Troops to make good so bold an Enterprise the only Name of Emir-Jemla made all tremble But the whole matter being altogether counterfeited all these Commotions were presently calmed by the intimations that were given to the Chief Officers of Emir's Army and by the presence of Aureng-Zebe who there appeared very resolute with his two Sons and spoke now to one then to another and at last by promises and presents liberally bestowed on those that were concerned So that all the Troops of Emir and even most of those of Chah-Jehan seeing things troubled and being without their General and believing Chah-Jehan to be dead or at best desperately sick considering also the ample promises made to them of augmenting their Stipend and of giving them at that very time three months advance soon listed themselves under Aureng-Zebe who having seized on all the Equipage of Emir even his very Camels and Tents took the Field resolved to March to the Siege of Suratte and to hasten the taking it in where Morad-Bakche was exceedingly embarrassed because that his best Troops were employed there and that he found more resistance in that place than he imagined But Aureng-Zebe after some days March was informed that the Governour had surrendred the Place for which he sent Congratulations to Morad-Bakche acquainting him withall of his Transactions with Emir-Jemla and assuring him that he had Forces and Money enough and very good Intelligence at the Court that nothing was wanting that he was directly going to Brampour and Agra that he had expected him on the way and therefore desired him to joyn with him 'T is true that Morad-Bakche found not so much Money in the Fortress of Suratte as he had imagined whether it were that really there was not so much as was reported or whether the Governour had diverted a part of it as some believed Yet notwithstanding that little he found there was useful to him to pay the Souldiers that had listed themselves in hopes of the advantages they should make of the imagined vast Treasure of Suratte 'T is not less true that he had no greater reason to boast of the taking of this Place in regard there was not any Regular Fortification about it and yet his Army had lain before it above a month and would never have reduced it without the Hollanders who furnish'd them with the Invention of Springing a Mine which ruining a great side of the Wall cast the Besieged into such a consternation that it made them immediately surrender The reduction of this Town did much advance his Design Fame proclaiming immediately throughout these Countries that Morad-Bakche had taken Suratte that he had sprung a Mine which sounded very big among the Indians who as yet do little understand that practice and that there he had found a vast Treasure Notwithstanding this great noise and all the first advantages joyned to all those frequent Letters and great Promises of Aureng-Zebe the Eunuch Chah-Abas a Man of good Sense of a great Heart and exceedingly affectionate to the Service of his Master was not of opinion that Morad-Bakche should so much tye himself in interest to Aureng-Zebe or precipitate his conjunction with him but advised that he should amuse him with words and let him advance alone towards Agra that in the mean time there would come certain News of the sickness of Chah-Jehan that he should first see what Channel Affairs would run in that he should Fortifie Suratte as a very good Post able to render him Master of a very large and rich Countrey and that perhaps in time he might seize Brampour which is a very considerable Passage of a River and as 't were a Bar of Decan But the continual Letters and Protestations of Aureng-Zebe joyned to the small Forces Artillery and Treasure of Morad-Bakche blinded with an excessive ambition to Reign made him regardless of all other considerations so that he went away from Amadevad abandon'd Guzaratte and took his way through the Woods and Mountains with all expedition to be at the Rendevouz where Aureng-Zebe had looked for him these two or three days Great Solemnities of Joy were made at the conjunction of the two Armies the Princes visited one another Aureng-Zebe made a hundred protestations and no less promises to Morad-Backche assured him afresh and solemnly of his not caring for the Crown as also of his being there for no other end than to assist him against Dara their Common Enemy and to place him in the Throne which expected him Upon this Enterview and confirmation of Friendship both Armies Marched together Aureng-Zebe continuing always during the March in the protestations of Friendship and in his Courtship to Morad-Bakche treating him never otherwise whether in publick or private but with the Title of Hazaret that is King and Majesty So that Morad-Bakche was fully perswaded

had no great inclination to Dara and who went not but to oblige Chah-Jehan whom he saw in the hands of Dara The other was Jessomseigne a potent Raja not inferiour to Jesseigne and Son-in-law to that Raja Rana who was at the time of Ekbar so puissant as if he had been the Emperour of the Raja's Dara at their farewel expressed to them great kindness and presented them nobly but Chah Jehan took his time before their departure to charge them in secret as he had done the Raja Jesseigne when he went away in the Expedition against Sultan Suiah with Soliman Chekouh Neither were they wanting in their March to send several times to Aureng-Zebe and Morad-Bakche to perswade them to turn back But this was in vain their Envoys came not again and the Army advanced with that diligence that they saw it much sooner than they thought upon a rising ground not far remote from the River It being then Summer and the season of the greatest heats the River was fordable which was the cause that at the same time Kasem-Kan and the Raja prepared themselves to give Battel besides that they soon knew the resolution of Aureng-Zebe that he would force them since that although his Army was not all come up he gave them some Vollies of Cannon his design being to amuse them fearing lest they themselves should pass the River not only to prevent his passage but also to hinder his Army from reposing and from taking an advantageous post which was indeed in great disorder and so tired by their March and so faint by the heat that if at the very first it had been assaulted and kept from passing the Water it would doubtless have been routed without much resistance I was not by in this first Encounter but thus it was generally discoursed of and it agreeth with the after-relation of many of our French-men who served Aureng-Zebe in the Artillery But they were content to stay at the River-side to keep Aureng-Zebe from passing it according to the Order they had received After that Aureng-Zebe had let his Army rest two or three days and by amusing the Enemy had fitted it to pass the River he made his whole Artillery play which was very well placed and he commanded that under the favour of the Cannon they should pass the River Kasem-Kan and the Raja on their part discharged theirs also and did what they could to repulse the Enemy and to keep him from passing The Combat was sharp enough at first and very obstinately maintained by the extraordinary Valour of Jessomseigne For as to Kasem-Kan although a great Captain and a stout Man he gave no great proof of his Valour in this occasion yea some accuse him of Treachery charging him that he had in the night caused the Bullets and Powder to be hid under the Sand there being no more of them to be found after two or three discharges However it be the Combat for all that was as I said very resolutely carried on and the passage long disputed There were Rocks in the Bed of the River which did much embarass and the Banks in many places were very high and difficult to climb up But at last Morad-Bakche cast himself into the water with so much resolution and force and shew'd so much valour and boldness that there was no resisting of him He passed over and with him a good part of the Army which made Kasem-Kan to give back and cast Jessomseigne into great danger of his person For by and by he found the whole Body of the Enemy upon him and without the extraordinary resolution of his Ragipous who almost all were killed about him he had been a dead man One may judge of the great danger he was in upon this occasion by this that after he had disengaged himself as well as he could and was come back to his own not daring to return to Agra because of the great loss he had suffered of seven or eight thousand Ragipous he had but five or six hundred of them remaining These Ragipous who take their name from the Rajas that is to say the Children of the Rajas are from Father to Son such Men as make the Sword their Profession The Rajas whose Subjects they are do assign them Lands for their subsistence on condition to be always ready to go to War when summoned So that one might say that they were a sort of Pagan Nobles if the Rajas gave them their Lands in propriety for them and their Children They are great takers of Opium and I have sometimes wondred at the quantity I have seen them take They accustom themselves to it from their youth On the day of Battel they double the Dose this Drug animating or rather inebriating them and making them insensible of danger insomuch that they cast themselves into the Combat like so many furious Beasts not knowing what it is to run away but dying at the feet of their Raja when he stands to it They want nothing but Order Resolution they have enough 'T is a pleasure thus to see them with the fume of Opium in their head to embrace one another when the Battel is to begin and to give their mutual Farewels as Men resolved to dye And that they do for this reason that the Great Mogol though a Mahumetan and by consequence an Enemy of the Heathen yet for all that entertains always a good number of Rajas in his service whom he considers as his other Omrahs and imploys in his Armies as if they were Mahumetans I cannot forbear to relate here the fierce reception which the Daughter of the Rana gave to her Husband Jessomseigne after his defeat and flight When she heard that he was nigh and had understood what had passed in the Battel that he had fought with all possible courage that he had but four or five hundred Men left and that at last not being able to resist any longer the Enemy he had been obliged to retreat She in stead of sending one to receive him and to console him in his misfortunes commanded in a dry mood to shut the Gates of the Castle and not to let this infamous Man enter that he was not her Husband that she would never see him that the Son-in-law of the Great Rana could not have so low a Soul that he was to remember that being grafted into so Illustrious an House he was to imitate the Virtue of it and in a word that he was either to vanquish or to dye A moment after she was of another humour she commands a Pile of Wood to be laid that she might burn her self that they abus'd her that her Husband must needs be dead that it could not be otherwise And a little while after this she was seen to change her countenance to fall into passion and to break out into a thousand reproaches against him In short she remained thus transported eight or nine days without being able to resolve to see her Husband