Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c58.s4.5

v4.c58.s4.5

In addition to gaining this correct knowledge of the enemy’s position, Arthur Wellesley here received news as cheering as that which had greeted Lake on the eve of the battle of Delhi. Collins had bribed a clerk of Daulat Rao Sindhia when living in his camp as Resident, and this traitor had contacted Wellesley at that General’s request. The British Commander heard at Nālni that the Confederated armies were bent on retreat to Ajanta and that there was daily mutiny among their unpaid starving soldiery who were threatening Sindhia’s diwān with violence (dharnā.)*