The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c25.17

c25.17

Again, this time in Bundelkhand, we get the following description of the ordinary native fort (Fitzclarence, 59). “These forts are in general of mud, but from six to twelve feet at the bottom of the wall are often of masonry. They are surrounded by a deep ditch, and the defences consist of small round-towers connected by curtains. Some of them have two or three lines of these walls and towers within each other. On the glacis are generally large excavations for grain; but this, of course, is only in dry situations. The mud walls receive the shot without being shattered, and they are in consequence very difficult to breach”. A similar description applying to the southernmost part of India, is to be found in Wilks, ii, 95.