Riyaz al-salatin 114.2.5

114.2.5

This corps approached slowly, and reached the plain of the ruins amidst which Rajah Beni Bahadur's troops lay. Shaikh Ghulam Qadir and other Shaikh Zadas of Lucknow who formed the van of Rajah Beni Bahadur's army, stood with guns behind a wall amidst those ruins. The English regiments slowly and circumspectly, without disclosing themselves, crept up to the summit of the wall, and it was only when they rolled down stones on the heads of the Rajah's troops that rested behind the wall at its foot, that these woke up from their slumber. It was only then that Shaikh Ghulam Qadir and his kinsmen and followers came to know of the arrival of the English regiment, and rose up to fight. Before, however, these Shaikhs could arrange their force in fighting array, the English regiment commenced firing their muskets, and killed Ghulam Qadir and his kinsmen, whilst others fled. At this time, Rajah Beni Bahadur asked Ghalib Khan, a notable of Delhi, what course he was to follow. Ghalib Khan answered that if the Rajah cared for his honour, he must die fighting, or else must run away. Then for a time the Rajah engaged in fighting, but shortly after changing his mind, and preferring not to die, ran away.