The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c21.27

c21.27

Again the march of Sayyad Ḥusain ʿAlī Khān from the Dakhin, a march undertaken under circumstances of extreme urgency, should afford an excellent test of the rate at which a Moghul army could march. He left Aurangābād about the 11th Nov. 1718, and reached a suburb of Dihlī on the 16th Feb. 1719. His march thus occupied 98 days, and his route by way of Burhānpur, Ujjain, and Āgrah, measures about 695 miles on the map, allowing 1/8th for the windings of the road. His average daily rate of marching (including any days on which he halted) was thus 7.1 miles.