The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c23.28
The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c23.28
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c23.28
Allied to what Elliot refers to as "colligation", or men binding themselves together when fighting, is an incident which I have only met with once. In 1165 H. (1752) at the turning-point of the battle fought outside Lāhor against Aḥmad Shāh, Abdālī, the nāzim, Muʿīn-ul-mulk, and his chief captain, Bhikārī Khān, put each one foot in the other's stirrup, and thus, knee to knee, fought their way back to shelter in the fort of Lāhor (Ghulām ʿAlī Khān, Muqaddamah, fol. 79b).