Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c35.s3.9

v3.c35.s3.9

The Mughal generalissimo had himself set out from Delhi on 24th September and entered his tents at Bārapula. He took very happy auspices for his projected campaign by capturing the mud fort of Maidāngarhi, which Suraj Mal had built, as if in supreme defiance of the imperial authority, only 13 miles south of Delhi (1¾ miles south of the Qutb minār.) Najaf’s heavy fire drove the rustic garrison from the walls and the fortalice was taken by a single assault of infantry clambering over the mud walls sword in hand. In another quarter, a Jat detachment from Farrukhnagar attacking the *garhi* of Harsaru was defeated and despoiled by the Mirzā’s lieutenant Najaf Quli Khan, on 5th October.*