The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c15.129

v4.c15.129

He now had trouble with his own troops, who had in the previous year carried on a tedious and laborious but fruitless campaign against the Uzbegs, and had since marched to Lahore and back. There was much sympathy with the rebels, and the troops disapproved of Akbar’s restless activity and preferred a more leisurely system of warfare, but Akbar knew how to deal with discontent in his own army and was resolved on this occasion to finish with the Uzbegs. He marched from Rāe Barelī on 7 June and, learning that the rebels had bridged and crossed the Ganges at Singraur, sent the main body of his army under Rājā Bhagwān Dās and Khvāja Jahān to cross the river at Karā while he himself crossed it at Mānikpur, when it was already so swollen by the melting of the snows on the hills that only 1000 or 1500 men succeeded in crossing with him.