The first years of peace Reform
Naval War in the East had given reason to the fleet grenadine, but he also highlighted the huge gaps in the navy, which in practice had not changed for 300 years, while vessels and equipment remained in step with the times. This commission was given to the Navy Department in 1717. The solution was to adopt the French system as a whole, thus restoring the organization to modern navy.
Marwar
In 1713, the raja of Marwar presented the request to be considered a sovereign and not a satellite state governor by the king. In essence, this would have only established that the foreign troops sarebero been greatly reduced, while taxes and directives from Granada would remain the same. Ismail, pressed by budget problems, agreed.
The slave trade
With the war at the end of Java, Ismail took seriously consider the possibility of closing the parenthesis schavitù: the earnings of these were high, the slave populations were more difficult to capture men, with the increasing organization of the Confederation of Tambacounda, which itself could not sustain even the situation in the long .
In the same city, Ismail IV, the Prime Minister Sheikh Albarracin and the leaders of the Confederation met in 1716 to discuss the reinstatement of the land in the kingdom and especially protection from raids for slaves. Agreement reached with relative ease: after nearly 80 years of war, all the people who were called "enslave" returned to the kingdom of Granada, with the status of all others. Also conformed to the heads and swore allegiance to the king (the descendants of those who had previously lost all privileges, however, do not restore anything). Throughout the kingdom to buy back the ban on slavery, but not to possess or to hold in slavery and their descendants, thus leaving intact the heritage of the slave that had been created.
However, the centers of Bioko Mayumba and were, therefore, decreed that the subjects of Granada were able to capture and sell slaves.
Rajput As mentioned earlier, in 1713 Pabuji Shekha advantage of Granada who were supporting the costs of disposing of 80 % of Turkish and Persian garrisons in his kingdom (Granada and took off the burden of their maintenance). But the war ended, the Council and the Minister Foreign asked the king to return the soldiers in Marwar, because the agents had reported at several meetings between the raja and wanted to prevent the preventable. Despite the opposition of the Treasury, Ismail agreed to redeploy some principals, sending the auxiliary in 1720 still exist in Sindh and Gujarat.
Raja did not agree with his army and prevented the other soldiers to reach the forts. Not knowing how to act, the quotas did an about-face. Before long came the message that the kingdoms of Marwar, Ajmer and Udaipur are new ally to fight Granada. The garrisons still present, depend on external supplies, were defeated in about a week and sent the occupants in the work forced.
Governor Vasco Brabo had to decide for themselves, given that communication with the capital to take a long time, even cutting the Sinai. However, the news service reported that the armies of Ajmer and Udaipur from 20 to 30,000 men had just put in march to join that of Marwar from 50000 men. The only way to avoid the invincibility of the Allies was to fight the armies separately. Delhi and the Ottoman Empire could not intervene.
The new system of recruitment had not been introduced throughout the kingdom and in Gujarat, for instance, remained the lever system. The sultans of Gujarat, however, did not have a system of recruitment and fast rule, did not respond diligently their rulers. But an event was helpful to the governor. A young noble Gujarati, visiting a Muslim Rajput, had a dispute with another nobleman of the place and was killed. The fact he did drop dramatically the relationship between Gujarat and the Rajput aristocracy and fomented the "esprit de corps" Trai noble, who was born in the last sultan. In no time, the militia of Gujarat were ready to be sent to the slaughter. Brabo
One thing, however, did not know was that in the previous war, the loss of Rajput were very high, so that Pabuji had to increase the number of warriors outside the warrior caste (Jat, Charan etc. ...), who had trained strictly to fight in the European style, while the core of the army did not change weapons and tactics.
Three months after the declaration of war came the Maratha divisions (which were within the professional soldiers) and Tamil, with the Infantry Division of the Guard mandatagli uncle.
The Battle of Selwasan
Brabo's decision to take the command himself was probably driven by its quest for glory, as in the previous war had been discarded in favor of Bhosle. The historians have exaggerated the hidden qualities of the governor, who proved to be a good commander, but nothing exceptional, remaining attached to the views of the military academy.
however, remained an important staff, while in command of their populations with Shoba Perumal (the division of the guard, one of cavalry and three infantry brigades and two artillery and one of engineers) and Rajaram, the son of Shiji, which had two divisions with two brigades of infantry ' and artillery assault. Brabo was the direct command of about 25,000 soldiers, 10,000 in Sindh and Gujarat, for a total of 80,000 to 95,000 soldiers, the army larger than Granada had ever deployed in India, without regard to principals who remained. However, a division Tamil and most effective levers were Sindhi and Gujarati, and even if not officially, showed one of the major flaws Andalusian army for a long time: an extremely well-equipped army, but with a huge gap between the regular and well trained militia, which was only taught how to shoot and reload online.
march towards the border in the three columns were quite apart and moved to take them Shekha still divided. The quota Perumal, unable to rely any longer on wagons, was what I was looking for a distance of more loot. On September 3, the avant-garde Karwara Perumal came in, and the center, held by Brabo was Hariyali, thirty miles away and the left wing of Rajam, and was among Hariyali Chitalwana. East of Karwara on the heights, had arrived in the army of Marwar, who now number about 60,000 men. Shekha wanted to intercept the 56,000 Tamil, but the scouts warned just in time the general, who hastily withdrew towards the rest of the army.
The wiser choice, probably would have been to retire by scorched earth and wait for the allies, as an army of that size could only win a clear victory with a fast, full on defense, but probably the idea of \u200b\u200bleaving the penetrate enemy so his kingdom was not going to Raja, but decided to attract even more distant from the border, waiting to find out that the army was moving to attack and retreated to the mountains, waiting. After a skirmish on the trails, the king gave it to mean you want to leave those positions because they afraid of number of enemies and went to Selwasan.
Brabo's army had been the first to descend and the general thought that we were still retreating to cover the eastern road to Jodhpur (and retrace your steps back to the west was out of the question), so he gave orders to subordinates to hurry to take opponents on a flat area. Pabuji moved again, passing the river east of the village.
But on the afternoon of September 9, the rearguard of Marwar proved choices made by the troops, who easily repulsed and showed that the first units were excavated on the east bank of the river reduced.
Brabo made to withdraw the troops and prepared to assault the defenses with the rest Army. On the morning of 10 was decided that we had to attack the defensive positions, using the two bridges and a few points passable, diminished in number by the rains, try to get around it was not possible, as this would give a Shakh to retire. The bombing lasted three hours, but the parapets of the trenches in front for most of them mitigate their effects. So they went away the charges in installments. Throughout the day there, but whenever he was smashed in the first line of defense, the second kept back the assailants. At the first assault of military regiments found themselves in error to precede the bodies when they were attacked and put to flight hinder their comrades, making it easy to massacre the next were more orderly but equally fruitless. The attempt by engineers to build another bridge was foiled by the (few) guns of the Rajput.
Only in the late afternoon of Brabo decided to attack with the bayonet the Guard, with some boats built by engineers, it was possible an attack almost universal. This time, the auxiliary gave in and broke the lines, but the Rajputs resisted. Fighting continued late into the night, with defenders clinging by their trenches to repel the attacks continued. Just before dawn the last resistance was quelled and the troops were able to fall asleep exhausted. The battle was an unprecedented cruentezza. Grenadine at least 10,000 soldiers had died in the attacks and other two thousand in the fighting after sunset. Even worse losses Shekha. 15,000 auxiliaries were dead or had surrendered, he was saved only four thousand. Some twenty thousand had been sent from Shekha back when he realized that the shock wave of the last assault was not contained to defend Jodhpur. All the rest remained on the ground to block the enemy army. Fighting to the death, only a few dozen soldiers were killed in some way. Shekha fell on the ground. However, that delay allowed in Abha Singh, the ruler of Jodhpur, to escape the cavalry and get back to prepare a defense.
seemed Pyrrhic victory, but in fact had dealt a severe blow to the forces of Marwar. After Selwasan of the battle, you just get to take the Jodhpur kingdom. However, there were still armies of Ajmer and Udaipur.
Siege of Jodhpur
whole region of Barmer was abandoned and Ajit Singh had retired with all available men to Jodhpur. Rajarm was asked to besiege the city. This fell after two months after the bombing to continue for almost the entire duration of the siege. The defenders at the time of the last assault, had been decimated and their proverbial little value was used. Rajaram, contrary to the guidelines given to him by his superior, left the city was sacked.
The kingdom of Marwar became another province and Rajput rulers, the few who remained were forced to swear allegiance to Granada.
The betrayal of the siege of Ajmer and Udaipur
Marching towards Udaipur to meet new enemies, Brabo was contacted by Prithviraj VIII, King of Ajmer. These Brabo told that he was willing to leave the alliance in which he had thrown his father now dead, as there was between Ajmer and Udaipur atavistic rivalry. Granada would gladly have helped, had he maintained the prerogatives. The governor, doubtful, however, accepted and saw that he had no reason to doubt: the Battle of Sonwara, his army joined the 20,000 to Prithviraj and easily defeated the king Maharana Sangram Singh II. The gesture was maligned in all other Rajput kingdoms, but the king of Ajmer had a triumphal welcome in their own, having won the enemy.
After the defeat, Sangram had to take refuge in the fortress with 10,000 men Chittorgah, the southeastern border, unable to reach Udaipur (which did not resist.)
The almost legendary fortress of Chittorgarh was very old foundation and over the centuries had been improved. Various armies had conquered, but the difficulties were such that only a war machine more efficient that could do the job. There, the king of Udaipur had retired, with his warriors and (mostly) their families. Brabo
Prithivraj sent into his kingdom, and prepared a long siege. There would be no way to bring out the defenders and the only solution I found was to hit the walls with siege artillery.
For many months the situation was stalled. The large army was scattered far and wide to integrate with looting supplies from friendly territory, but the Rajputs were not able to make a sortie.
The situation grew worse for them when the artillery came the siege of Rajaram. With guns, protected by barricades of earth and wicker that allowed the gunners come close, the situation was untenable for the defenders, and soon enough it was breached in a storm. Thus, in the spring of 1724, the defenders made the Jauhar and Saka, rajputi desperate defenders of the ritual: women and children immolated in the fire, while men have arisen in one last charge. This, taking the enemy by surprise, I almost managed to escape them, but the preparation of the Guard allowed him to organize and slay all the warriors. In 1724, the kingdom fell to Udaipur lack of defenders. In short, Ajmer formalized the submission. This time there would be no special Vassallaggi.
