Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c27.s16.14

v2.c27.s16.14

The battle of 7th December was the turning-point in the Pānipat campaign. The Bhāu lost his supreme counsellor and right-hand man; there was none left to whom he could entrust any responsible work as his dependable deputy where he could not be personally present. All the rest of his officers were small men, at best good clerks and account-keepers, but unworthy of command, incapable of taking the initiative, and unable to inspire confidence in a crisis. From that night of wild confusion terror and carnage,* everything went against the Bhāu, slowly but with increasing and resistless pressure.