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142 person on horseback. These orders were but too strictly executed; for Captain Gee, aide-de-camp to Colonel Smith, who had ridden into the camp to ascertain the cause of alarm, was cut down in the darkness and confusion that prevailed.

From the irregular construction of a Mahratta camp, the advance of cavalry is subjected to numerous impediments, and confusion soon ensued, which was still further increased by an accident. The state elephant of Morari Rao having received a wound, broke loose from his pickets