Riyaz al-salatin 114.2.4

114.2.4

On Major Munro's arrival, the Nawab-Vizier with his army hurriedly took up a position on the north-west of a jhil or marshy sheet of water. The English army rested on the south-east of the jhil. The Nawab-Vizier posted Sumroo and Madak with eight guns and eight regiments of Mir Qasim to cover his front. The Nawab-Vizier's army was composed of three wings. The right wing was commanded by the Nawab-Vizier himself, his centre was commanded by Shuja Quli Khan with six thousand Mughal troops, and his left wing was under the command of Rajah Beni Bahadur, Nawab-Vizier's Deputy Subadar in Oudh and Allahabad. The left flank of the left wing rested on the banks of the Ganges. The battle opened with a cannonade, which was briskly kept up on both sides, and which did its destructive work on both sides. Then the Nawab-Vizier with his Mughal and Duranian troops made a flanking sally from towards the right of his own artillery, assaulted Major Munro's cavalry and camp, and worked havoc in the English army. From the brisk cannonade kept up by Madak and Sumroo, and from the repeated assaults of the Nawab-Vizier, the English army was hard-pressed. Major Munro grasping the crisis and finding a frontal attack impossible, owing to the muddy jhil lying in front of him, quickly detached a corps under Captain Nau to make a flanking movement from the side of the river, in order to attack the Nawab-Vizier's left wing, commanded by Rajah Beni Bahadur.