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Updated: May 24, 2025
"After repeated consultations, we determined it would be best to risk the passage of the fleet by Choquova. The passage was carried out in three hours' time without confusion or disorder, by means of my Swedish guns on the boat which led the van.
Pourparlers for an accommodation were renewed and lasted three days, at the end of which it was agreed that I should continue my march, that two hostages should be given me for my safety, and that the army with its guns should retire from Choquova, and should be sent a long way ahead across country, and as, at half a league from this place, the river was no longer navigable because of the bank which had formed in it, I should be supplied with people to facilitate my passage.
A moment later I learned that Sheikh Faiz Ulla was on the opposite bank with his army and his artillery, that he intended to wait for me in a narrow place called Choquova, at the foot of which my boats must pass, and that he was diligently making entrenchments there. My embarrassment was then extreme.
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