Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c56.s17.9

v4.c56.s17.9

It was a splendid victory; it completed the work begun at Aligarh by destroying Perron's entire field army. But a heavy price had to be paid for it. The British-Indian force had marched 18 miles, had been under arms for over 16 hours continuously on an intensely hot day,* and fought a far larger army of men holding a strongly prepared position with numerous heavy artillery, to which the British could oppose only light gallopers. The loss of the victors was 47 officers and 414 other ranks, a total of 461 men (out of whom 116 were Europeans), besides 170 horses.