1 5^ CAPTURE OF DELH7. [AmNDix.
2 very imfavournble to him, and he was compciDfld to TStnift ioillMdiatiely tO
3 JdiiBhhed, from whence he retired to Heraut.
4 In the spring oL' 1750, Ahnieil again marched agaiuht Nceshapoor, which
5 be now succeed in taking. It was probably on thia oocauon thi^ be re-
6 duced the moftt remote of tfaoae parts of Khonwam tfast wore permmondj.
7 ittwdied to. his domiiuons*
8 The Dooraanee empire 1 believe, never extended much beyond NeedHU
9 poor on the weet. Ahmed returned Irom this expedition to Hemit.
10 In the course of the winter, or early in the next year, 1751, Ahmed
11 Shaiih was recalled to Mesliiied by a reheUion of Meer Alhim Khaun, Chief
12 of KiUiin, wiio liad seized on the trtjasurc at Metiiilied, and blinded and de*;
13 throned Sh«uh Bokh Meene. Ahmed Sfaauh reeloied flhanh Bokh, and
14 ioon after toofcKeiunaiid put Heer. Mum to deeth. At thk time he ala»
15 made an attempt on Astenbad» which wm repelled by the KudjiiB.
16 In the enmmer of 1752, Ahmed l^auh marched into the Puniaab^ and n-
17 dnced Meer Munnoo, who had revolted in his absence. During the same
18 campaign, he conquered Caslnneor, and obtained by negociatiou a ^^'wn of
19 the country as far t^t as Sirhind, trom the great Mogul.
20 • : After this, Ahmed returned to Candahar, and appears to have spent tiie
21 £nit next yean in tranquillity : his nephew Lokmann Khaun, however,' te-
22 bellad; and the GhUjies attempted an insurrection during that period* but-
23 botd^were easily quelled.
24 He probably employed this interval of leisure in Brtlllim A^jhauiUilaai^
25 and the countries in its immediate ueighbourliood.
26 In 1756, Meer Muunoo, the governor of the Punjaub, died. His dcatii
27 ^as folJo;nred by intrigues, and rebellions, and the whole province fell into
28 OEtreme ooniluion. This state of things induced the coort of Delly to send
29 4 hug^ 4broe undef.the Visier Ghausoodeen into the Pto^aul^ ftr' par-
30 pose of annexing it to the Mogul dominions. T!ie vizier succeeded witbout
31 difficulty, and gave the government to Adeena Beg, who had been tieputy to
32 Shrtnh Niiwauz Khaun, and afterwards to Me< r Mminoo ; ;Lti(] who was
33 di»tinguihiied for his activity and »piht of iutrigui*. This done, the vizier
34 Returned to Delly. . - . . -
35 Ahmed Shai^ oa hearing of this aggression, left Oandshsr, crossed the
36 Induib dzofe-Adecne out of the Fnn|iMilH«and asardied stra^g^ to Ddty.
37 ^e tyranny of the vizier, and the reluctance wtth iriiiidi the eaoperor Sttiv
38 pi«te4<to. his oovtrql, had thiown that capitel mto great ^wausoarand.
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