1 REVOLt Of UtiitBlSft ttHAUN.
2 pressed by ttie Siks, and distrustful of their Hindo<wtaun<»c troop<!, retiMl fi
3 Eminabad. Lahore, which they evacuated, was taken by the iiiks.
4 The MahrtUtas soon took Sirhind ; and as they C(M9!tinued their inarch to-
5 tittdt the ipnt» Stfdir JeiinilDuim lookthsnfotiiti^ the prince
6 aftd Ma femnimng troops by rdtinng aenm thalpdua. II««Ael«dU«nlraii
7 it tbe nlglif^ ilnkiiown to his Hindoostaunee troops, lod Wfth fodi fttd|p»<
8 tikiaii, that his own family fell into the hands of the enemy, by whom they
9 were soon after released. The Mahrattas beins^ now unopposed, pushed theit
10 conquests Beyond the Uydaspes, and »mt a detachment which todcpoesenioii
11 <^Mou1tan.
12 Timoor Shauh's flight took place in the middle of 1758, and Ahmed Shauh
13 was preparing to inarch to lodiab wImii 1m waa datajiiad by the nhdluMi of
14 Nmaeer Khann, dnrfof the Bdochea.
15 Hie history of Belochistaun is remarkably obscure beforr (liIs period^ bul
16 it appears that Mohubbut Khaun, whom Naudir liad fixed in the govern*
17 ment *, had died, and was succeeded by his second brother Haujee Khaiin.
18 Tliat chief appears to have disgusted his Rulijet is h\ Ins tyranny, and ottended
19 Ahmed Siiauh by taking part iu Lokmaun iviiauu's rebellion. It is certain,
20 thai he waa depoaed and iaipKboned by nwaaa of Ahmed Shauh, and that
21 Nuiaeer Khaun, hit brother, saeoeeded hidi in the govenuaeiit. It n not
22 Idunra what mdnoed NuMeer Khaim to throw off hia depandaBce on the
23 IHMvamiee government 1 bat he dechied himaeif indepindent hi liie
24 year 1758.
25 The vizier Shauh Wullee Khann wa« first sent r»pf:^inst him, and was de-
26 feated at a place in the neighbourhood oi 6hawl. Almied then marched in
27 person to Belochistaun, where he ptobaUy arrived in automn or in the end
28 of aammer. He engaged and defeated Noneer Khaun, and obliged him, to
29 tvitbdrawirithhithe walla of KehMit, to whicfa Ahmed laid aiage. Itioaaid
30 that the Dooraunee chiefs were fay no means dlqNfied to aoeonqilish-the
31 entire subjection of the Beloche prince (in whose coinitry tfiev were always
32 secure of a retreat when exposed to the anger of theu- own King), and that
33 the vizier, in particular, maintained a correspondence with Nusseer and en-
34 couraged bira to hold out by representing the disposition of the Dooraunee
35 bids, and pointing oat the eaabairaiaBieMl irfaieh the King laeuM aaftrfioa
36 * &w J«Bet, Uutdfc de Nadir Cbali. Unrre IV< cbap. (S.
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