Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c53.s3.45

v4.c53.s3.45

∗ The detailed figures are taken from a letter written by an English officer of Pohlmann only four days after the battle; but they do not make up this writer's total of 65,000 men on the Jaipur side and half that number in the Marātha army. A battalion in the Indian princes' service in those days ranged from 400 to 500 men only,—the lower of these two figures being the known strength of Dudrenec's batte-ions. I have corrected the total in the light of this fact. The absurd exaggerations of James Skinner that the Jaipur army numbered 1 lakh and 10 thousand men with 150 guns and that the Marātha army lost 20,000 men in killed and wounded and the Rajput "probably double that number," have only to be stated to be rejected.