Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c56.s13.28

v4.c56.s13.28

The city of Koil stands a mile south of the fort of Aligarh, whose name it has taken under the British administration. A broad avenue of shady trees joins the city to the fort-gate (south-eastern corner). A low marshy tract cut by this causeway, guards the fort on its southern and eastern faces. Another and more extensive morass stretches east of the avenue. Perron’s troops, almost entirely made up of cavalry, were encamped on the open plain east of the fort with their face to the second marsh lying on their south. Thus the direct dry route for approaching them was through the head of the shady avenue at the northern end of Koil. The fort-guns were trained on this line of advance.