[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Fall of the Mughal Empire](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932) › v3.c35.s8.5 # Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c35.s8.5 Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c35.s8.5 - **Language:** English ### [v3.c35.s8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932.v3.c35.s8.5) From its situation Dig could be attacked only from the plain south-west of it, as the English found out in 1804. Najaf Khan, anticipating Lord Lake's siege of exactly 29 years later, cut his first trenches in the same month and week as the British conqueror (the middle of December), opposite Gopālgarh and the Shāhburj. - [Previous: v3.c35.s8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932.v3.c35.s8.4) - [Next: v3.c35.s8.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932.v3.c35.s8.6) - [Up: v3.c35.s8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932.v3.c35.s8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932.v3.c35.s8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932.v3.c35.s8.5) · Pramāṇa