Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c55.s12.3

v4.c55.s12.3

There are great discrepancies in the details and dates of this campaign between the statements of Resident Collins's news-agents in Delhi which he reported *immediately* to the Governor-General and the story told by Thomas himself (or written down by his Persian clerks) for Francklin in Benares about July 1802. George Thomas was illiterate, he kept no diary or other *contemporary* record of his campaigns, and his Persian *munshis* might be set against the same class of reporters in the service of Collins. But about the dates I have followed Thomas, (*e.g.*, Collins puts the second battle in the *afternoon of the same day*, *viz.*, 29th September, and Francklin in the afternoon of 1st October). The details of movements and casualties also differ widely, but in the case of the last I believe in Collins.