The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c26.20
The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c26.20
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c26.20
*Movable shields*. In 1710 the Sikhs, when attacking the town of Jalālābād in the Ganges *Duābah*, adopted the plan of using movable wooden screens, or mantlets, mounted on ordinary cart-wheels. These they brought close to the walls, and from their shelter showered bullets and arrows on the besieged, (Khāfī Khān, ii, 656). Mantlets in general have been described, ante p. 142, under the word *Tūrah*, when dealing with Light Artillery.