Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c29.25

v2.c29.25

∗ I follow Forster (Journey, i. 279), and Cunningham (102n) in rejecting the Sikh tradition, unsupported by any contemporary record and naturally incompatible with other known facts, that in November 1762 the Sikhs assembled at Amritsar (in a body of 60,000) for a sacred bath, and when Ahmad Shah arrived to attack them, they drove him back in headlong flight to Lahor, and in retaliation took that city after a short siege. This success was achieved not on Ahmad Shah but on his local agent, and its date was 1763.