The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c12.s1.4

c12.s1.4

These heavy pieces had frequently to be left behind, from the impossibility of their keeping up with the army. Thus *A‘zam Shāh*, when he marched in 1707 from Aḥmadnagar to Dholpur, left all his heavy guns behind at various stages of his march, and had none left when he reached the battle field at Jājau (Kāmrāj, *A‘zam-ul-ḥarb*, fol. 19). Then in Ṣafar 1125 H. (March 1712), during the contest for the throne between the sons of Bahādur Shāh, three of the very largest guns were removed from the fort of Lāhor, each being dragged by 250 oxen, aided by five or six elephants, and it was ten days before the camp was reached, although it was not more than three or four miles distant (B.M. N°. 1690, fol. 157*b*).