Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c56.s24.9

v4.c56.s24.9

By this time the two Native Infantry battalions had come up to the front, and Lake led them personally to reinforce the 76th Regiment, advance upon the enemy's right wing, and secure the guns which his cavalry had ridden through. The ground to be crossed was wide, "the Marathas standing valiantly to their guns, poured a concentrated artillery and infantry fire on the two battalions and faced their charge bayonet to bayonet. . . . The British wing hurled themselves against the Marathas, burst through the gaps in their lines made by the charge of the Dragoons, and attacked the village of Mālpur with a fury that none could resist.” Meanwhile the 29th L. Dragoons, after piercing through both lines of the enemy’s right wing, had wheeled to the left and scattered like chaff Gulāb Rai Kadam’s cavalry who were watching the scene from the west of Laswari. These Deccani soldiers abandoned their northern brethren and saved themselves by galloping away into the northern hills.