A History of Assam c12.32

c12.32

Before these events occurred, the Nawāb of Dacca had collected fifteen hundred horse and four thousand matchlock men, together with large stores of grain, ammunition, weapons and money, and proposed to march in person to the relief of Abdussalām. But his presence being required in Dacca, he entrusted the command of the expedition to his brother Mir Zainuddin, who set out with an escort of twenty-five war sloops. The long river journey was slow and tedious; and before he was able to reach Assam, the events already described had taken place. The news of these disasters did not dismay him, and he at once took vigorous steps to restore the Muhammadan supremacy in Lower Assam. According to some accounts, he was accompanied by Prān Nārāyan, Raja of Koch Bihār. He marched against Chandra Nārāyan, who fled without waiting to be attacked, and all the Goālpāra zamindars on the south bank of the river submitted.