Chapter ROCK-PIGEON to ROHILLA of R by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

money to be paid to the E. I. Company, with a body of troops for the declared purpose of ‘thoroughly extirpating the nation of the Rohillas’; a nation from whom the Company had never received, or pretended to receive, or apprehend, any injury whatever.”—Art. of Charge against Hastings, in Burke, vi. 568.