17. Shams-ud-dîn Îltutmish, 'the greatest of the Slave Kings', reigned from A.D. 1210 to 1235 (A.H. 607-633). He besieged Gwâlior in A.H. 629 and after eleven months' resistance captured the place in the month Safar, A.H. 630, equivalent to Nov.-Dec. A.D. 1232. The date given in the text is wrong. The correct name of this king is Îltutmish (_Z.D.M.G._, vol. lxi (1907), pp. 192, 193). It is written Altumash by the author, and Altamsh by Thomas and Cunningham. A summary of the events of his reign, based on coins and other original documents, is given on page 45 of Thomas, _Chronicles of the Pathân Kings of Delhi_. Îltutmish recorded an inscription dated A.H. 630 at Gwâlior (ibid. p. 80). This inscription was seen by Bâbur, but has since disappeared. 18. Ibrâhîm Lodî, A.D. 1517-26. He was defeated and killed by Bâbur at the first battle of Pânîpat, A.D. 1526. the correct date of his capture of Gwâlior, according to Cunningham (_A.S.R._, vol. ii, p. 340), is 1518. 19. Humâyûn was son of Bâbur, and father of Akbar the Great. His first reign lasted from A.D. 1530 to 1540; his second brief reign of less than six months was terminated by an accident in January A.D. 1556. The correct date of the surrender of Gwâlior to Shêr Shâh was A.D. 1542, corresponding to A.H. 949 (_A. S .R._, vol. ii, p. 393), which year began 17th April, 1542. 20. Shêr Khan is generally known as Shêr (or Shîr) Shâh. A good summary of his career from A.D. 1528 to his death in A.D. 1545 (A.H. 934 to 952) is given by Thomas (op. cit. p. 393). He struck coins at Gwâlior in A.H. 950, 951, 952 (ibid. p. 403). 21. Gohad lies between Etawah (Itâwâ) and Gwâlior, twenty-eight miles north-east of the latter. The chief, originally an obscure Jât landholder, rose to power during the confusion of the eighteenth century, and allied himself with the British in 1789 (Thornton, _Gazetteer_, s.v. 'Gohad'). 22. This memorable exploit was performed during Warren Hastings's war with the Marâthâs, Sir Eyre Coote being Commander-in-Chief. Captain Popham first stormed the fort of Lahar, a stronghold west of Kâlpî (Calpee), and then, by a cleverly arranged escalade, captured 'with little trouble and small loss' the Gwâlior fortress, which was garrisoned by a thousand men, and commonly supposed to be impregnable. 'Captain Popham was rewarded for his gallant services by being promoted to the rank of Major' (Thornton, _The History of the British Empire in India_, 2nd ed., 1859, p. 149). 'It is said that the spot (for escalade) was pointed out to Popham by a cowherd, and that the whole of the attacking party were supplied with grass shoes to prevent them from slipping on the ledges of rock. There is a story also that the cost of these grass shoes was deducted from Popham's pay when he was about to leave India as a Major-General, nearly a quarter of a century afterwards' (_A.S.R._, vol. ii, p. 340).