Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c56.s6.13

v4.c56.s6.13

respect to European officers and sepoys. . . . Perron’s infantry brigades are not yet regularly formed into ten battalions each.” Subject to the above qualification, Perron’s force in April-May 1802, was reported by Collins to be made up of four brigades of infantry, each of ten battalions with a bayonet strength of 716 men, four field-pieces and one howitzer to each battalion. Each brigade had, in addition to its battalion field-pieces, a general park consisting of 16 large-calibre guns, The risāla of regular cavalry (inflated by Collins’s correspondent to 4,000 sabres) was supplied with galloper guns. The scale of pay for service in Northern India is given below, to which an addition of 50 p.c. (bata) was made when posted south of the Narmadā:—Major (corresponding to the modern Brigadier) Rs. 1,200 a month; Captain (i.e., colonel commandant of a battalion) Rs. 400; Lieutenant (i.e., company commander) Rs. 200; sepoy infantryman, Rs. 7. [PRC. ix. 50, 50.]