Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c58.s9.1

v4.c58.s9.1

Assaye cannot be called a decisive battle if it was expected to crush Sindhia's power by that one blow. At first he put a brave face on it, and argued that he had inflicted a thousand casualties on the English force and lost the day only through his unprepared state at the time of the attack, the cowardly flight of Raghuji Bhonslé, and the seduction of his own battalion commandants by the English. Untaught by the past, Daulat Rao talked of pursuing the traditional Marātha policy of sending predatory hordes into Haidarabad territory, Bengal and Punā, which had failed before Assaye.