The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c21.23

c21.23

We have also some other accounts, which are sufficiently specific to afford us information of the usual rate at which an army marched. For example, we have the advance of Farrukhsīyar from Paṭnah to encounter his uncle, Jahāndār Shāh, in the neighbourhood of Āgrah. The prince left Paṭnah on the 22rd Sept. 1712 and reached Sarāe Begam, opposite Samūgarh, east of Āgrah, on the 4th January 1713. The distance from Paṭnah to Āgrah was commonly reckoned as 300 *kos* (780 miles), Khūshḥāl Chand, B.M. Addl. 24,027, fol. 220*a*. I make it no more, however, than 585 miles on the map (allowing 1/8th for the windings of the road); and as Farrukhsīyar did not keep to the usual route, but deviated a good deal to the right, in order to visit the shrine of Shāh Madār at Makhanpur, I should estimate the distance actually travelled at about 610 miles. The stages (including the final advance to Dihlī) were: