Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 19.21.7

19.21.7

for as he expected nothing now but from his alertness, he resolved to leave the enemy behind, and by cutting his way through the hills and mountains, to be beforehand with them at Mbrshbd-abad, where he would possess himself of Mir-djaafer-qhan's person, and of the wealth of so rich a capital. With this view, he made every preparative which his time would permit; and throwing away, or possibly putting into some castle, his artillery and carriages, (articles which might prove so many incumbrances in his passage through the hills and in a warfare of expedition) he set out with a disincumbered body of troops; and turning to the right, he struck into the hilly country, from whence he marched straight to Mbrshbd-abad. Miren being informed of this, dispatched a letter by the post to his father, and taking with himself most of Ram-narain's troops, which the latter had put under the command of his own brother, Dvr-narain, he in a few days set out for M8rsh8d-abad, by the very road by which Cam-car-qhan had proceeded. Such an intelligence could not but astonish the old Navvab; but nevertheless he put himself at the head of what troops he could assemble, and of a body which he obtained from the English rulers of Calcutta; and quitting M8rsh8d-abad in a favourable moment, he marched out at the head of a respectable force.