Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c37.s3.14

v3.c37.s3.14

These far-resounding victories destroyed the chance of every anti-English coalition in India and cowed every Indian Power hostile, in act or feeling, towards them. Mirzā Najaf Khan was not the man to underrate the military strength of the men from beyond the seas; he had faced their bayonets at Undhuā Nālā in 1763 and he had brigaded his horse with their infantry in 1764; he would not drag the Emperor into a war with such a race unless it was undertaken by an allied force so overwhelmingly strong as to make assurance of victory doubly sure.