Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c14.s2.16

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∗ D.C. records an intestine fight between Ismail Khan (the slave and most trusted counsellor of Safdar Jang) and Muhammad Ali Khan (a cavalry leader and high general of the wazir) in his camp on 18th December 1749. The English factors of Patna wrote in Dec. 1742, "The subah(dār) of Oudh is advancing this way with 40,000 horse . . . His people commit outrages, and are under no command."