Later Mughals v2.c16.s7.1

v2.c16.s7.1

We must now explain how this sudden and unexpected movement took place. As Saadat Khan arrived at Agra Baji Rao had moved away from the Chambal, where his left flank was confined by the river and his camp intersected by deep ravines, to opener country upon the north-east. There through his agent in Samsam-ud-daulah’s camp he heard of the boastful account that Saadat Khan himself gave of his successful action. “I was resolved,” Baji Rao writes, “to let the Emperor know the truth, to prove that I was still in Hindustan, and to show him the Mahrattas at the gate of his capital.”*