Ch.XXIV, p.547, f.2
"On the fourth day, the Muhammadans saw with great joy Sadru'd-Dawlih,
grandson of Haji Muhammad-Husayn Khan of Isfahan, enter their section
of the city coming from Sultaniyyih, at the head of the tribe of
Khamsih. For several days thereafter, reinforcements arrived in great
numbers. First of all, Siyyid Ali Khan and Shahbar Khan, one from
Firuz-Kuh, the other from Maraghih, with two hundred horsemen from their
respective tribes. After them came Muhammad-'Ali Khan-i-Shah-Sun with
two hundred mounted afshars; fifty artillerymen with two field guns and
two mortars, so that the governor was provided with as much assistance as
he could have wished and surrounded with a goodly number of military
chieftains, among whom were several who were famous throughout the
country." (Comte de Gobineau's "Les Religions et les Philosophies dans
l'Asie Centrale," 198-199.)
"One of the most terrible encounters related in the journal of the siege,
is the one which took place on the fifth of Ramadan. Mustafa Khan,
Qajar, with the fifteenth regiment of Shigaghi Sadru'd-Dawlih with his
horsemen of Khamsih; Siyyid Ali Khan of Firuz-Kuh with his own
regiment; Muhammad Aqa, colonel, with the regiment of Nasir called the
royal regiment; Muhammad-'Ali Khan with the Afshar cavalry; Major Nabi
Big with his cavalry and a troop made up of loyal citizens of Zanjan; all
these men at dawn attacked the fortifications of the Babis. The
resistance of the Babis was magnificent but disastrous. They saw their
best leaders fall, one after another, leaders brave and true, saints who
could not be replaced: Nur-'Ali the hunter; Bakhsh-'Ali the carpenter;
Khudadad and Fathu'llah Big, all indispensable to the attainment of
victory. They all fell, some in the morning and others in the evening."
(Comte de Gobineau's "Les Religions et les Philosophies dans l'Asie
Centrale," p. 200.)