Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c14.s4.1

v1.c14.s4.1

In the meantime, the battle of Rām Chatāuni had shaken the wazir’s dominions to their foundations, as all the Doāb east of Delhi and the province of Oudh including the fort of Allahabad now lay defenceless. Ahmad Bangash followed up his victory by taking possession of the country from Aligarh to Akbarpur-Shāhpur in the Cawnpur district, and then returned to Farrukhabad, while he sent one army under his son Mahmud to invade Oudh and another under Shādil Khan to conquer the Doāb southwards to Allahabad. His governors occupied Phāphund, Shamsābād and Chhibrāmau. Shādil Khan’s progress having been stopped by his defeat at the hands of the wazir’s local agent Baqāullah Khan near Korā (Fathpur district), Ahmad himself marched with a vast army and laid siege to Allahabad. [Far. Gaz. 164-165.]