The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.13

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Shujāʿ, making Tānda (four miles west of the old fort of Gaur) his base, entrenched various places on the eastern bank of the Ganges to prevent the enemy from crossing. But Mīr Jumla with great diligence procured a small number of boats from remote places, and making the best use of them twice surprised and defeated Shujāʿ's advanced outposts, but his third *coup* (13 May) failed with heavy loss, as the enemy had prepared an ambush for him. On 18 June, prince Muhammad Sultān, chafing under Mīr Jumla's tutelage, was lured by the offer of the hand of Shujāʿ's daughter and secretly went over to his uncle. But Mīr Jumla restored order and control among the prince's leaderless troops, and at a council of war all the other generals agreed to obey him as their leader. Next, during the torrential rains of Bengal, while the city of Rājmahāl was completely girt round by water, its grain supply was cut off by the Bengal flotilla and Shujāʻ by a sudden attack recovered it, the surprised imperial division of the city fleeing away (1 September).