[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.s8.6 # Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c35.s8.6 Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c35.s8.6 - **Language:** English ### [v3.c35.s8.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932.v3.c35.s8.6) The Mughals were singularly inept in conducting sieges by sap and breaching, and "the bizarreness and ignorance displayed in the Delhi army's operations" justly moved the cultivated French captain to a sneer: when they asked for his opinion, Modave "frankly replied that if apes attacked each other they would undoubtedly construct such siege-works." Half the Mughal army faced the Shāhburj, and the other half (under the supreme General himself) the outwork Gopālgarh. - [Previous: v3.c35.s8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932.v3.c35.s8.5) - [Next: v3.c35.s8.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932.v3.c35.s8.7) - [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.s8.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932.v3.c35.s8.6) · Pramāṇa