Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c28.s12.19

v2.c28.s12.19

Leaving Faridabad on their right, the Jat army struck the Jamuna some 14 miles south of Delhi and entrenched. Jawahir’s own troops were between thirty and thirty-five thousand horse and foot with a hundred pieces of artillery of all calibres, and Najib’s the same number of men with all the guns of the capital. But 20,000 Maratha horse were expected to join the Jats in a few days. Najib had sent his wakil Meghraj to Abdali in Qandahar via Jammu (as the Lahor road was closed by the Sikhs), appealing for protection from the coming storm; he had also called for reinforcements from his brother Afghans of trans-Ganges.