History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c9.83

c9.83

⁴¹ Even the judicious Elphinstone was led to follow Firishta's error. He writes: "His next undertaking was to conquer China and fill his exhausted coffers with the plunder of that rich monarchy. With this view he sent an army of 100,000 men through the Himalaya mountains, but when the passage was effected, the Indians found a powerful Chinese army assembled on the frontier with which theirs reduced in numbers and exhausted by fatigue was unable to cope."