[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Kashmir](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir) › [Tārīkh-i Rashīdī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi) › [The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross) › 82.1 # The Rashīdī History 82.1 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 82.1 - **Language:** English ### [82.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.82.1) In the following year, 885, the Khan came to Kashghar with the whole of the Moghul troops, who numbered 60,000 men. Here he was joined by Muhammad Haidar Mirza, who had a better ordered army than he had had the year before, and they advanced together on Yarkand. The two forces together amounted to 90,000 men, cavalry and infantry. Mirza Aba Bakr again fortified himself in the citadel, as he had done the year before. He had mustered an army of cavalry and infantry to the number of about 5000. The cavalry consisted of 3000 of those princes of whom I have spoken — chosen young men, whom Muhammad Haidar Mirza, in his ignorance, had let slip out of his power. The 2000 infantry were chosen archers, all of whom the Mirza had brought together by promises and hopes \[of gain\]. The Khan's army encamped in a circle round \[the town\]. The Khan himself took up his quarters in Kalu Aj Bari, a well-known place to the north-east of Yarkand. After the afternoon prayer, distinguished men from the battalions and divisions \[kushun u tuhun\] of the Khan's army advanced, of their own accord, before the citadel and opened the battle. Mirza Aba Bakr's force issued from the citadel in the following order : between every two horsemen there was an archer on foot, and in front of each archer there was another foot-soldier bearing a shield. A hard fight took place; but the Khan remained in his own quarters. - [Previous: 81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.81) - [Next: 82.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.82.2) - [Up: 82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.82) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.82.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.82.1) · Pramāṇa