Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c7.s5.1

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It was a force formidable in number, but it was rendered still more formidable by its military organization and the racial character of the men. As an eye-witness of the campaign against Ali Muhammad in 1745 writes in his diary, "Every soldier in his army, whether horse or foot, carries a musket; every commander of ten or a hundred infantry has his own small banner of parti-coloured cloth, and these are carried at the head of the cavalcade in marching, so that it looks as if a flower garden is travelling with them." (Anandrām, 261.)