Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c54.s5.23

v4.c54.s5.23

At last their methodical advance brought Brownrigg and Sharzā Rao within two miles of Indore, and here the decisive battle was fought on the 14th. On that day, too, Jaswant displayed the greatest personal courage and persistence, but he was hopelessly outclassed in artillery, and his trained brigades had lost their beloved and experienced European leaders, through the desertion of Dudrenec and Plumet and the imprisonment of their successors, Fleury and Malé, by the suspicious Jaswant. Holkar’s campoo troops were now under a timid and incompetent leader, Harnāth chelā or slave. [Mohan S. 95 b. Thakur, ii. 47.]