1 570
2 KiiORASSAUN im'ADED BY THE PERSIilNa [AppEBDa,
3 dkMninions, and -with such predpitation was his resolution executed, that ht
4 made but t«D marches from HuMUii AbcUml to PHh«w«r*t whave btMnmi.
5 ' on the 3d of January 1796.
6 The Persian invasion had been designed tor tiie ct^ture oi Meshhed* when
7 gfMt diaooiitieiit ptevailMl agaiiiit tiw ftmify of Nan^ Bhmii. Miiriir
8 Ifeetnt «liadllcmitfaleroftlieplM8k pctio^ > ptoa itWch had ■wwetdod
9 fm ft fttmar fwnmifliBj and fled to Caubul as the Persiann approached : hia
10 ftther, Shaidl Rokh, was detnned by hk age and infirmttiea, and threw hiin-
11 f pif on the mercy of the conqueror; but his submission did not soften Agha
12 MHlioined, whose disposition, naturally barbarous and unrelenting, was exas.
13 perated by the injuries which htnueli' and lamiiy had si^bred from Naudir
14 jShauh. Sbanh Jlokhiiw seised OB eatori^g the Peniftacaiap, ta^^
15 npfUMLibnukB him give up Ma trpanireBt wd after endoring all the tiwienta
16 which the emOtf aad mriee of hit penecutorcoold «i«gest, the eld and
17 hSnd gmdson of Nandir Shaadi was murdered in the Persian camp. A^m
18 Mahommed then entered Mcshlied, destroyed the tomb of Naudir Shnnh,
19 dnn; up thit conqneror'^ bones, and sent them to Teheraun. It remarkable
20 that Naiidir's Uiiiily should be massacred and his grave dishonoured by Per-
21 naas, after having be^ so long protected hy the nation from whose yoke he
22 Ae MeaMied hadloiig beca dapcndenr an Oanbol, tMi attack gw»twrt
23 • «ai»e both of indignation and alarm to Shauh Zemaun, and at first he aeiMi
24 to have been influcnrcd by those feelings: be returned to Caubul prepared
25 for WW, and proposed to the U:^beks to enter into a leapiie against the
26 Persians ; but his ardor soon cooled, and an embassy Irom Agha Mabom^
27 together ^th the retreat cf that monarch, succeeded in making him give up
28 ^dt tefoUsieiiMhBtaif temlari^ «id dn]|p all 11ioii{g|ila itf nvenging the
29 iMHcnitv he had auflfatcd. Aanh Zeaiaiii^a ■ftitf^f^f^tyn ^ inJiaa enedip
30 tions seconded the views of the PerstanaoB-this occasion, and no woawr had
31 Augba Mahomed withdrawn, than he set out for Peshawer and prepared to
32 return to the Punjaub. He aHsemblcd n force of thirtj' thousand men, of
33 whom one half were Dooi auiices, aiid in [he end of November he be^ran his
34 march ior India, aud advanced unopposed to i<ahore, which be entered 0x1
35 the 3d of January 1797.
36 Hhaah ZeaMHia's graend plaa for redndng the eoautrj was iboadedoa
37 4e ffadiea of Ahmed ShaaL He aeaft fiofienft Cbcpaindi (^gfat pwtiie
38 * l^pmidiefineMf-ienBBribii
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