Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c14.s1.7
Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c14.s1.7
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v1.c14.s1.7
When his insulted messenger returned to Qāim Khan, that noble in anger issued forth to battle. Leaving Farrukhabad on 2nd Nov. 1749, he crossed the Ganges at Qādirganj and marched towards Aonla. Meantime the Ruhela army had left Aonla and formed an entrenched camp near the village of Daunri, four miles south-east of Budāun city. Here Qāim Khan* arrived on the 11th, and rejecting a friendly message of dissuasion which Hafiz Rahmat had sent by three holy Sayyids, he engaged the enemy the next day.