Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c56.s25.12

v4.c56.s25.12

The perfect co-ordination of action between cavalry and infantry and the advance of artillery in close support of a moving infantry, were never learnt by Sindhia’s campoo, or if once learnt they had been forgotten after the departure of De Boigne. Perron had no galloper guns attached to his Regular Cavalry, but only to the Hindustan horse,—none of the latter were present at Laswari. [PRC. ix. p. 112.] Thus Sarwar Khan had nothing but his guns of position to oppose Lake’s moving batteries (four in number) in the decisive fighting of the afternoon, and his infantry became helpless targets on leaving their trenches.