History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v1.c11.18

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Thereafter the only hope of taking Qandahar was by carrying the sap nearer and breaching the walls. In both of these the Mughals failed. Aurangzib’s trenches, west of the ridge, arrived within 22½ yards of the wall, and Sadullah’s (east of the fort) to a spot 10 yards from the ditch. But here their progress was arrested. “The trenches could not be carried any nearer in face of the severe fire showered from the fort-walls.” “The work [of sapping] was hard, and many of Sadul-