Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c10.s8.14

v1.c10.s8.14

Ahmad Abdāli, however, was too good a general to admit an utter defeat. He put a bold face on it and made a firm stand in a small mud-fort a short distance behind the battle-field, checking the Mughal advance by musket-fire. By the time the imperialists brought big guns to bear on the fort, night had descended, and the Afghans fled away under cover of the darkness. To the Mughals the victory was quite unlooked for and they durst not follow it up at once, but deemed it wiser to keep a careful watch in their own trenches during the whole of the night, each man sleeping fully armed in his own appointed place, the generals sitting on horseback, the sentries regularly going round, and random shots being fired by way of precaution till next morning.