Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c58.s5.1

v4.c58.s5.1

Leaving his infantry and baggage behind General Wellesley rode out from Nālni with his cavalry only to reconnoitre. Reaching the crest of a hillock about four miles ahead at noon, he beheld the armies of the two Rajas spread out before him beyond the Khelna river, flowing a mile north of him. They filled the entire parallelogram, eight miles in length west to east, between Bhokardan and Assaye, and two miles north to south between the Juah *nālā* and the Khelna river. Sindhia with his cavalry lay at their extreme right, close to the town of Bhokardan; Bhonslé with his horse and foot in the centre; and last of all, the telescope revealed Sindhia’s regular infantry and their artillery at the extreme left of their line, which ended before the village of Assaye on the south side of the Juah. A mile and a half downstream from this village the two rivulets met together in a triangle.