Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c54.s8.3

v4.c54.s8.3

It would, however, be a mistake to think that Jaswant at this stage was exactly repeating the tactics of his great ancestor, Malhar Holkar I, as he had done in Mālwā in 1801. On the contrary, the myriads of light forayers spreading out before his army, formed only the probing knife of his attack. But the core of his army combined both the new and the old instruments of war; he now brought into the Deccan a large corps of trained infantry under highly competent European officers like Hardinge, Armstrong and Vickers, with their powerful artillery and Mir Khan's tough Pathān fighters, both horse and foot. This infantry moved rather slowly and was put to use only in pitched battles, when all the branches of the Holkar army were united for action.