Tarikh-i Iradat Khan 2.2.9

2.2.9

Shah 'Alam's artillery played upon us incessantly, and did great execution, and his sons advancing, fired showers of musketry, which fell like hail. * * * At length our troops, grown impatient from the galling of the enemy's cannon, prepared to charge. * * I saw Khan 'Alam move towards the enemy with great rapidity. As he advanced nearer the enemy, his followers diminished, gradually lagging behind, and not above 300 stuck by him to the charge. When I saw this, I well knew that all was lost. The brave chief, however, penetrated to the elephant of 'Azimu-sh Shan, and hurled his spear at the Prince; but it missed him, and struck the thigh of an attendant, when the Prince drew an arrow, which pierced the heart of Khan 'Alam, and he died on the instant. * * A body of the enemy, under Baz Khan Afghan, now attacked Zu-l fikar Khan, but was repulsed with great loss, and the chief badly wounded; but by the decrees of Providence, Ram Singh Hada and Dalpat Rao Bundela, on whose valour and conduct most depended, were killed at the same instant by a cannon-shot, upon which their Rajputs lost all confidence, and fled with the dead bodies of their chiefs. Zu-l fikar Khan, however, yet remained firm, with his own followers;