Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c44.s3.5

v4.c44.s3.5

For, by this time the alarm had spread throughout the Rajput army, where the chiefs were even more unready than the Nāgās. But a race of brave men cannot perish in utter inaction even through the folly of its leaders. Many individual heads of families gathered their relatives together and got ready to do and die on their personal initiative, though their supreme commander (Bakhshi) Bhimrāj Singhavi had at first vacillated and at last fled away. Therefore, when an hour after dawn, the three battalions under Rohan were seen to have moved far away from their centre, one large body of Rathor cavalry from the south of Dāngāwās quickly seized this tactical blunder, rushed into the gap in the campoo line, enveloped these battalions, cut up nearly half of the men, and threw the entire wing into disorder, though after the flood of horsemen had passed on, Rohan managed to rejoin De Boigne’s main body with the remnant of his force, himself mortally wounded.