The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c21.182

v4.c21.182

The effect of this pressure soon began to tell. On 17 December a body of horse under 'Atā Khān, riding fifty miles in a day, surprised Govind Pant and his raiders and cut them to pieces. A few nights later, some twenty thousand camp followers, who had left the Marāthā camp to go foraging, were caught by the advanced post and all slaughtered; and to crown everything, on 6 January a convoy bringing specie from Delhi to pay the troops, together with its escort, was similarly cut up.