Chronological retrospect Author:David Price Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A.H. 816-17. ment near Isfahaun. This refractory behavior on the part of his ne- ' — r' phew, necessarily produced a change in the plans of Shah Rokh; the - ,... more » akbbaur. expedition into Azerbaijaun was indefinitely postponed; and his attention immediately directed to check, at their outset, the rash and ambitious projects of his misguided relative. Having dispatched his son Mirza Baysungur, at the commencement of the spring, to provide for the tranquillity of Khorassaun, Shah Rokh, on the fourteenth of Mohurrem, of the eight hundred and seventeenth of the hidjerah, quitted his winter quarters in Mazan- deraun, and, by. the way of Damaghaun, proceeded towards Rey. On his arrival near the castle of Sheheryaur, adjacent to, or not far from that ancient city, several Ameirs who had been employed, on the partof Mirza Eskunder, to take possession of Sawah and lay waste the intervening territory, came over to the camp of Shah Rokh; easily yielding to the persuasion, that having all, either by themselves or their fathers, served in the armies of Teymur, their allegiance was unquestionably due to his family; but where the claims of the son and grandson were brought into competition, that the former was clearly entitled to the preference. From thence continuing his march, by Sawah, to the gardens of Rustum, within twofarsangs, or about seven miles of Isfahaun, Shah Rokh was joined by other respectable Ameirs, who embraced the opportunity to abandon the cause of Eskunder. Notwithstanding these inauspicious beginnings, the latter did not, however, decline to give battle to the superior force of his uncle, shortly afterwards ; and being defeated, and compelled to shut himself up within the walls of Isfahaun, he was there immediately besieged by the victorious troops. In the mean tim...« less