Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 19.10.7

19.10.7

for that senseless man conceived, that in the present circumstances, such expressions, such a confidence, and such a management, were so many strokes of policy, and would infallibly promote his expedition, by engaging Shudja-ed-doula to join heartily in it; and in that notion of his, he gave the order couched in such terms as the other dictated. Shudja-ed-doula, furnished with such a piece, returned to his capital; and Mahmed-culy-qhan prepared to set out with what troops and artillery he was master of; adding only to his train two large pieces of brass cannon, which he brought down from one of the towers of the Fortress of Ilah-abad, and which he mounted upon field-carriages. After all these preparatives, he made choice of a favourable moment, and quitting his palace in the fortress, he encamped in the suburbs of the town. It was in the year 1172 of the Hejira. Two days after he set out on his expedition, taking the Shah-zada, and his whole retinue with him.