1 SECOND INVASION OF THE PUNJAUB. lAmtmvL
2 bled an army of twenty thousand men, mostly Fenians of KhorasaMUi* with
3 which he would probably have attacked Candahar, hadhenotbeenprareBled
4 by the King's speedy return.
5 Shauh Z«;maun marched against him from Candabar on the 8th ot .Scpteni-
6 ber» i797> and altliough his own injudicious arrangements bad nearly exposed
7 Uu to defeat, yet 1i» eActs of hit inqpuMlMioa we coaatencted hy ibo
8 treadwiy of Mahmooirt adhenntti Olidi Khaon Teimorae aeiaed the
9 citadel of Heraut in his name, and was joined by the Dooraunee governor of
10 the dty : the army followed the example of disaffection, and Mahmood* n»
11 duced to def?pair, fled to Tooshish with his son Cauinraun.
12 Shauh Zemaun immediately entered Hernnt • t^\ n of Mahmood's advisers
13 were executed for this rebellion, but no otiier measures oi sc\crity were
14 adopted. Tlieae anram^encsts occupied Sbanli Zenann fiv aoaae tinei but
15 at soon as he had a mooMof t lefsure, he tamed his attenttoo to the Puii)aiA^
16 nhere Ma eanae had with aoiiie revewaa wfafle he iras engaged in the
17 west. As soon as he had quitted the country, the Siks retained fiMm their
18 hiding place's and began to retaliate on the Mussulmans the oppression which
19 those of their own religion had suffered from the Dooraitnee^, They had
20 even cut off a party of five thousand eastern Alghauns wiuch had advanced
21 |o the Hy da^spea under a duat ei the King's ^ and the whole of the Poi^uib
22 was aa fiur aa ever 6om being conquered, when the King set out on hia tinrd
23 eqaeditioo. Heaetofffiram Fedumer on the a5th of Oclobtt', 1798, and
24 advanced without molestation to Lahore. He peraevered in hia plan for coo-
25 ciliatinc: the Siks, and by all accounts no outrage of any sort was ofteretl to
26 the inhabitants of tlie Punjaub during this campaign. Many Sik. chiefs, and
27 all the Mussulman Zemeendars attended tiie court, and before the King
28 wiUidrew, all the chie& had done homage in person or through their agents ;
29 ' tad among the former was Runjeet Sing, now king of the Sfta*
30 ' About the end ef 179S, the Shanh received newB of an invaaioii of Kfaonai»
31 saun by Futteh AH Shauh, King of Persia, and aet oot on hia letdni to
32 Fesbawer, which he reached on the 30th of January, 1799. His guns were
33 lost in the Hydaipei, on his return, by a sudden rising of the river ; but tfacj
34 were afterwards ilni: out :ujd rt stored by Runjeet Sing and Salicb Sing.
35 After a sliort Rtay at Tesiiawcr, Zemaun repaired to Heraut, where he re-
36 aolved to qwnd the rait of the year ; and he now appeatt at hut to have
37 aei'ieurfy turned Ma attention to the defence of hia 'weatefp doBiinioBa» Tin
38 diqioaition m^have been prodooed by the peeaenoe of hia hrather Mahmood
39 in the IMan ani^» and the Aar of hia reeeiving auch airport finm the
40 Digitized by GoogI*