The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c12.s1.1

c12.s1.1

The Moghuls were very fond of large ordnance, but such pieces were really more for show than use; and as Fitzclarence truly says, 243, the oriental idea seems to have been “to render this destructive engine from its size more powerful than those of the Western world”. In this direction they proceeded even to extravagant lengths. These huge guns made more noise than they did harm; they could not be fired many times in a day, and were very liable to burst and destroy the men in charge.