Twilight of the Sultanate c14.s4.22

c14.s4.22

The fort was easily taken but, as was the Sultan’s habit, he sacked and plundered the country to earn the “felicity of a holy war”. Indiscriminate killing and destruction resulted in the outbreak of “typhus and other bad diseases”⁷⁵ and many of his men lost their lives. Leaving Mian Mākhan in charge of the fort, the Sultan returned to Delhi.