The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c26.56
The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c26.56
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c26.56
The importance of ejecting ʿAlī Muḥammad Khān was so fully impressed on the emperor, that for the first time in his reign he was persuaded to take the field in person. Amīr Khān and Ṣafdar Jang worked hard to secure this result, for without the emperor’s presence they could effect little or nothing. The wazīr, Qamr-ud-dīn Khān, was friendly to ʿAlī Muḥammad Khān, Qāim Jang, the nawāb of Farrukhābād, was in secret concert and alliance with him, and his army was efficient and well-equipped. On the 24th Muḥarram, 1158 H. (25th February 1745), making a pretext of a hunting expedition in the Lonī preserve, Muḥammad Shāh crossed the Jamnah, his real purpose being kept secret even from the wazīr.