History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v2.c22.81

v2.c22.81

waited to let Dara exhaust himself,* and met the enemy’s onset stage by stage as it developed itself. Unlike his tactics at Dharmat, he did not here assume the aggressive. Dara’s folly and inexperience alone contributed to the victory of the defensive game of his rival. The general advance of Aurangzib’s army and the utter dissolution of Dara’s vast host at the close of the day afford another parallel of the final defeat of Napoleon, though here there was no newly arrived Blucher to carry on a relentless chase of the vanquished. Lastly, the Imperialists ascribed their defeat to the treachery of Khalilullah Khan, just as the French after Waterloo raised the cry *Nous sommes trahis*.