Franklin, in his Life of George Thomas, describes this battle circumstantially; but makes it appear an affair of the Jaipur court, with Thomas and the Mahrattas, in which the Shaikhawats are not mentioned. Thomas gives the Rajput chivalry full praise for their gallant bearing.—_Memoir of George Thomas_, p. 109. [The battle was fought early in 1799 at Fatehpur, about 145 miles N.W. of Jaipur city (Compton, _European Military Adventurers_, 146 ff.).] Footnote 9.7.3: [Men clad in armour (Irvine, _Army of the Indian Moghuls_, 164).] Footnote 9.7.4: [See Vol. II. p. 863.] Footnote 9.7.5: The _salvamenta_, or blackmail of our own feudal system. See Vol. I. p. 203. Footnote 9.7.6: [See Vol. II. p. 876.] Footnote 9.7.7: [Such cenotaphs, known as _pāliya_, are common in Gujarāt (Forbes, _Rās Māla_, 691; Tod, _Western India_, 301).] Footnote 9.7.8: [Tribal levy.] Footnote 9.7.9: [Vol. II. p. 1095.] Footnote 9.7.10: [Twenty-five miles E. of Jaipur city.] Footnote 9.7.11: The second injunction was to keep the office of Faujdar, or commander of the forces, in the family of Shambhu Singh, Gugawat, a tribe always noted for their fidelity, and like the Mertias of Marwar, even a blind fidelity, to the _gaddi_ whoever was the occupant. The third injunction is left blank in my manuscript. Footnote 9.7.12: His first act, after his emancipation from the dungeons of Amber, was the delicate negotiation at Dhani, the castle of Chand Singh, Gugawat. He died at Baswa, April 22, 1812, on his return from Macheri to Jaipur, where he had been unsuccessfully attempting a reconciliation between the courts. It will not be forgotten that the independence of the Naruka chief in Macheri had been mainly achieved by the Bohra, who was originally the homme d’affaires of the traitorous Naruka. Footnote 9.7.13: [These corps of militant devotees were commonly employed in Indian Native armies in the eighteenth century (Irvine, _Army of the Indian Moghuls_, 163; Broughton, _Letters from a Mahratta Camp_, 96, 106, 123; Russell, _Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces_, iii. 157).] Footnote 9.7.14: [A corruption of Hindi _chhakra_ (Yule, _Hobson-Jobson_, 2nd ed. 407 f.).] Footnote 9.7.15: This was written in 1813-14. Footnote 9.7.16: Lachhmangarh, or ‘the castle of Lachhman,’ situated upon a lofty mountain [about 75 miles N.W. of Jaipur city], was erected in S. 1862, or A.D. 1806, though probably on the ruins of some more ancient fortress. It commands a most extensive prospect, and is quite a beacon in that country, studded with hill-castles. The town is built on the model of Jaipur, with regular streets intersecting each other at right angles, in which there are many wealthy merchants, who enjoy perfect security. Footnote 9.7.17: