The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c26.34
The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c26.34
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c26.34
Quite at the end of the Moghul period, we find these means of defending a breach resorted to by George Thomas’ officers, in resisting the Mahratta assault on Hānsī (3rd Dec. 1802): “Burning choppers (i. e. thatch from the roofs of houses), powder-pots, and everything he could get hold of, were showered upon us; but our greatest loss was from the powder-pots, which greatly disheartened the men”