The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c21.19

c21.19

The two marches above described were made under the strongest possible pressure of haste, and must represent the utmost that a Moghul army was able to do in the way of continuous marching. In ordinary times the usual march of an army never exceeded 4½ kos (11.7 miles) and was sometimes as little as 1¼ kos (3.25 miles). When Bahādur Shāh marched from Āgrah to the Dakhin, and then back viâ Ajmer to Lāhor, the historians record the length of 340 separate marches. Most of them were of 3 to 3½ kos each (7.8 to 9.1 miles). This monarch always halted on Friday, and there was generally a long halt in the month of Ramazān on account of the fast. Some of the facts may be tabulated as follows: