Lord Hawkesburg bowed gravely and said, "It is indeed a serious matter, Your Excellency, the Prime Minister."
William Pitt Junior frowned slightly, gesturing for him to enter the office: "Please sit down and speak."
"The Maratha Confederacy has erupted into civil war," the Foreign Minister said anxiously. "Raghunath Rao Scindia, in the name of the Peshwa, has sent troops to sack Indore City.
"In mid-July, Yeshwant Holkar assembled his army and declared war on Scindia.
"Currently, over 80,000 troops from both sides are engaged in fierce combat south of Ujain. Baji Rao II is calling for reinforcements for Scindia from the other states of the Maratha."
William Pitt Junior quickly made a pause gesture, then motioned for the secretary to fetch a notebook from the shelf, which he flipped through carefully.
This couldn't really be blamed on him. There are dozens of forces in India, each with peculiar names, even the Governor-General of India can't remember all of them.
