D. 1235.[17] the Hindoos
again got possession, and after holding it one hundred years, again
surrendered it to the forces of the Emperor Ibrahim, A.D. 1519.[18]
In 1543 it was surrendered up by the troops of the Emperor
Humayun[19] to Sher Khan, his successful competitor for the
empire.[20] It afterwards fell into the hands of a Jat chief, the
Rana of Gohad,[21] from whom it was taken by the Marathas. While in
their possession, it was invested by our troops under the command of
Major Popham; and, on the 3rd of August, 1780, taken by escalade.[22]
The party that scaled the wall was gallantly led by a very
distinguished and most promising officer, Captain Bruce, brother of
the celebrated traveller.[23]
It was made over to us by the Rana of Gohad, who had been our ally in
the war. Failing in his engagement to us, he was afterwards abandoned
to the resentment of Madhoji Sindhia, chief of the Marathas.[24] In
1783, Gwalior was invested by Madhoji Sindhia's troops, under the
command of one of the most extraordinary men that have ever figured
in Indian history, the justly celebrated General De Boigne.
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