BIB_ID
386638
Accession number
MA 1267.2
Creator
Lake, Gerard Lake, Viscount, 1744-1808.
Display Date
1804 June 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (5 p.) ; 32.0 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
Volume 10 (MA 1267) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries. (MA 487, MA 297 and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author of the letter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information (MA 1267.1-60).
Volume 10 (MA 1267) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries. (MA 487, MA 297 and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author of the letter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information (MA 1267.1-60).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Concerning his troop movements and that of Colonel Monson; reporting that "a detachment consisting of Five Battalions of Native Infantry and a considerable body of Irregular Horse under the command of the Honorable Colonel Monson has been advanced to the neighbourhood of Kotah for the purposes of preventing Holkar from returning in this direction...Colonel Monson has been furnished with my instructions to cooperate as far as possible with the Force under your command, in any operations, where such cooperation is required; and to enable him to do so, it will be proper that you correspond with that officer, on whatever measures you may judge necessary...By the latest accounts I have received concerning Holkar he was in a situation of the utmost distress and despondency. His Troops were deserting from him on all sides - he was in extreme want both of money and provisions and he was kept constantly alarmed by detachments of Irregular Cavalry, which under the order of Colonel Monson were sent to harass him...;" expressing hope "that the reduction of Holkar's power and the acquisition of his possessions will be attended with little difficulty, when the season for more active operations shall arrive;" adding in a postscript that "a detachment of Irregular Cavalry from Colonel Monsons Force had...captured three Battalions of Infantry with their Guns...who were proceeding to join the army of Jaswunt Rao Holkar."
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