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FOREIGN ADVENTURERS IN INDIA.
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as well appointed in men and material as the party he had lost. Receiving shortly afterwards (1782) an offer of a large sum from the Ráná of Góhad for the brigade as it stood, he sold it to him and returned to France. He did not long survive, being killed in a duel. The subsequent life of his brigade was even shorter, Mádhají Sindia, who was then warring with the Ráná, cutting it off to a man in an ambuscade (1784).