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enemy_n	battle_n	great_a	wing_n	1,355	5	9.0851	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27515	The history of the late revolution of the empire of the Great Mogol together with the most considerable passages for 5 years following in that empire : to which is added, a letter to the Lord Colbert, touching the extent to Indostan, the circulation of the gold and silver of the world, to discharge it self there, as also the riches, forces, and justice of the same and the principal cause of the decay of the states of Asia / by Mons. F. Bernier ... English'd out of French.; Histoire de la dernière révolution des Etats du Grand Mogol. English	Bernier, François, 1620-1688.; Oldenburg, Henry, 1615?-1677.	1676 (1676)	Wing B2044; ESTC R16888	130,833	407

an Onset should be made on all sides and himself advanced into the midst of the Body of the Cavalry directly towards the Enemies Artillery who received him warmly kill'd store of Men about him and put into disorder not only the Main Body which he commanded but also the other Bodies of the Cavalry that followed him Yet notwithstanding because he was seen to keep firm upon his Elephant without any appearance of giving back and was observed to look every where about him with an undaunted look and to make signs with his hands to advance and to follow him this disorder soon ceased every one resuming his Rank and advancing in the same pace with Dara But he could not reach the Enemy without receiving another Volley of Cannon-shot which caused a second and great disorder in his Men and made a good part of them recoyl yet he without any change in his countenance stood to it encouraging his Troops and gave still signs that they should follow him and advance with speed without any loss of time Thus pressing vigorously forward he forced the Enemies Artillery broke the Chains entred into their Camp and made a Rout in their Camels and Infantry and in every thing he met with on that side opening also a good passage to the Cavalry that followed him Then it was that the Enemies Cavalry facing him a sore Combat began A showre of Arrows fill'd the Air from both sides Dara himself putting his hand to that work But to say truth these Arrows do but little execution more of them are lost in the Air or broken on the ground than hit The first Discharges of Arrows being made they fought hand to hand with their Sables pesle mesle and the Combat was stoutly maintain'd on both sides Dara is still seen to continue firm on his Elephant encouraging making a noise and giving signs on all sides and at last advancing with so much resolution and force against all that opposed him in his March that he overthrew the Cavalry and made them to retire and run away Aureng-Zebe who was not far from thence and mounted also on an Elephant seeing this great disorder was in great trouble and laboured with all his might to remedy it but to no purpose He made the Main Body of his best Cavalry advance to try whether he could make head against Dara but it was not long before this Body also was forced to give back and to retreat in great disorder whatever Aureng-Zebe could say or do to hinder it Mean time let us take notice of his courage and resolution He saw that almost the whole Body of his Army was disordered and in a flying posture in so much that he had not a thousand Men about him that kept their standing some told me that there were scarce five hundred He saw that Dara notwithstanding the difficulty of the way which was uneven and full of holes in divers places made as if he would rush in upon him Yet for all this he lost no courage and was so far from being struck with fear or from retreating that he stood firmly to it and called by name most of his Captains that were about him crying out to them Delirane Kodahé these are his own words that is Courage my old Friends God is What hope is there in flying Know you not where is our Decan Kodahé Kodahé God is God is And that none might doubt of his being undaunted and that he thought on nothing less than running away he commanded before them all oh strange extremity that forthwith Chains should be fastened to the feet of his Elephant and was going to fasten them in good earnest but that they all declared their courage and resolution to live and dye with him Dara in the interim endeavoured to advance upon Aureng-Zebe though he was yet at a good distance from him and though the difficulty of the way embarassed and retarded him much he meeting also with some resistance even from those disordered Horse of the Enemy that cover'd all high and low places where he was to March. And this Encounter with Aureng-Zebe was looked upon as the thing that was to assure Dara of the Victory and to decide the Battel And doubtless he would have overcome all these difficulties and Aureng-Zebe with the small number left him would not have been able to bid head to this victorious Army if Dara had known how to profit of the prise he had in his hands But here he failed of which I shall now shew the occasion and how thereby the Scale was turned to Aureng-Zebe's advantage Dara perceived that his left Wing was in great disorder and he was informed that Rustam-Kan and Chatresale were killed that Ramseigne Routlé had too far advanced that he had indeed forced the Enemy and made way through the midst of them but that now he was surrounded every way and in very great danger This it was which made Dara desist from his design of making directly towards Aureng-Zebe that he might go to succour his left Wing There at first the Battel was also very sharp but Dara at last carried it forcing and routing all yet so as that there still remained something that resisted and stopped him Mean time Ramseigne Routlé fought with so much courage and vigour as was possible He wounded Morad-Bakche and came so near him that he began to cut the Girdles of his Elephant to make him fall down but the valour and good fortune of Morad-Bakche gave not time enough for it In short never any Man fought and defended himself more bravely than Morad-Bakche did on this occasion All wounded as he was and pressed by the Ragipous of Ramseigne Routlé who were round about him he was not daunted nor gave way in the least but knew so well to take his time that although he was besides defending himself to cover with his Shield a Son of his but of seven or eight years of Age who was sitting on his side he made an Arrow shot so luckily at Ramseigne Routlé that it made him fall dead to the ground Dara soon heard the sad News of this Accident but at the same time he understood also that Morad-Bakche was in very great danger the Ragipous fighting furiously and like Lions to revenge the death of their Master And though he saw on that side the way was very difficult and that he still found some small Body opposing and retarding him yet he was determined to rush through to Morad-Bakche And doubtless this was the best he could do and that which was capable to repair the fault he had committed in not doing his business thoroughly with Aureng-Zebe But his bad fortune kept him from it or rather one of the blackest Treacheries that ever was imagined and the greatest oversight that was ever committed did cause the entire loss and ruin of Dara Calil-ullah-Kan he that commanded the Thirty Thousand Mogols which made the right Wing and were alone able to defeat the whole Army of

had no great inclination to Dara and who went not but to oblige Chah-Jehan whom he saw in the hands of Dara The other was Jessomseigne a potent Raja not inferiour to Jesseigne and Son-in-law to that Raja Rana who was at the time of Ekbar so puissant as if he had been the Emperour of the Raja's Dara at their farewel expressed to them great kindness and presented them nobly but Chah Jehan took his time before their departure to charge them in secret as he had done the Raja Jesseigne when he went away in the Expedition against Sultan Suiah with Soliman Chekouh Neither were they wanting in their March to send several times to Aureng-Zebe and Morad-Bakche to perswade them to turn back But this was in vain their Envoys came not again and the Army advanced with that diligence that they saw it much sooner than they thought upon a rising ground not far remote from the River It being then Summer and the season of the greatest heats the River was fordable which was the cause that at the same time Kasem-Kan and the Raja prepared themselves to give Battel besides that they soon knew the resolution of Aureng-Zebe that he would force them since that although his Army was not all come up he gave them some Vollies of Cannon his design being to amuse them fearing lest they themselves should pass the River not only to prevent his passage but also to hinder his Army from reposing and from taking an advantageous post which was indeed in great disorder and so tired by their March and so faint by the heat that if at the very first it had been assaulted and kept from passing the Water it would doubtless have been routed without much resistance I was not by in this first Encounter but thus it was generally discoursed of and it agreeth with the after-relation of many of our French-men who served Aureng-Zebe in the Artillery But they were content to stay at the River-side to keep Aureng-Zebe from passing it according to the Order they had received After that Aureng-Zebe had let his Army rest two or three days and by amusing the Enemy had fitted it to pass the River he made his whole Artillery play which was very well placed and he commanded that under the favour of the Cannon they should pass the River Kasem-Kan and the Raja on their part discharged theirs also and did what they could to repulse the Enemy and to keep him from passing The Combat was sharp enough at first and very obstinately maintained by the extraordinary Valour of Jessomseigne For as to Kasem-Kan although a great Captain and a stout Man he gave no great proof of his Valour in this occasion yea some accuse him of Treachery charging him that he had in the night caused the Bullets and Powder to be hid under the Sand there being no more of them to be found after two or three discharges However it be the Combat for all that was as I said very resolutely carried on and the passage long disputed There were Rocks in the Bed of the River which did much embarass and the Banks in many places were very high and difficult to climb up But at last Morad-Bakche cast himself into the water with so much resolution and force and shew'd so much valour and boldness that there was no resisting of him He passed over and with him a good part of the Army which made Kasem-Kan to give back and cast Jessomseigne into great danger of his person For by and by he found the whole Body of the Enemy upon him and without the extraordinary resolution of his Ragipous who almost all were killed about him he had been a dead man One may judge of the great danger he was in upon this occasion by this that after he had disengaged himself as well as he could and was come back to his own not daring to return to Agra because of the great loss he had suffered of seven or eight thousand Ragipous he had but five or six hundred of them remaining These Ragipous who take their name from the Rajas that is to say the Children of the Rajas are from Father to Son such Men as make the Sword their Profession The Rajas whose Subjects they are do assign them Lands for their subsistence on condition to be always ready to go to War when summoned So that one might say that they were a sort of Pagan Nobles if the Rajas gave them their Lands in propriety for them and their Children They are great takers of Opium and I have sometimes wondred at the quantity I have seen them take They accustom themselves to it from their youth On the day of Battel they double the Dose this Drug animating or rather inebriating them and making them insensible of danger insomuch that they cast themselves into the Combat like so many furious Beasts not knowing what it is to run away but dying at the feet of their Raja when he stands to it They want nothing but Order Resolution they have enough 'T is a pleasure thus to see them with the fume of Opium in their head to embrace one another when the Battel is to begin and to give their mutual Farewels as Men resolved to dye And that they do for this reason that the Great Mogol though a Mahumetan and by consequence an Enemy of the Heathen yet for all that entertains always a good number of Rajas in his service whom he considers as his other Omrahs and imploys in his Armies as if they were Mahumetans I cannot forbear to relate here the fierce reception which the Daughter of the Rana gave to her Husband Jessomseigne after his defeat and flight When she heard that he was nigh and had understood what had passed in the Battel that he had fought with all possible courage that he had but four or five hundred Men left and that at last not being able to resist any longer the Enemy he had been obliged to retreat She in stead of sending one to receive him and to console him in his misfortunes commanded in a dry mood to shut the Gates of the Castle and not to let this infamous Man enter that he was not her Husband that she would never see him that the Son-in-law of the Great Rana could not have so low a Soul that he was to remember that being grafted into so Illustrious an House he was to imitate the Virtue of it and in a word that he was either to vanquish or to dye A moment after she was of another humour she commands a Pile of Wood to be laid that she might burn her self that they abus'd her that her Husband must needs be dead that it could not be otherwise And a little while after this she was seen to change her countenance to fall into passion and to break out into a thousand reproaches against him In short she remained thus transported eight or nine days without being able to resolve to see her Husband

of his wishes so as no body could contradict him in any thing or dispute the Crown with him Whereas if Chah-Jehan should take the Field all Affairs would be accommodated his Brothers would return to their Governments Chah-Jehan who began to recover his health would resume the Government as before and all things would return into their first channel That if he should stay for Soliman Chekouh his Son Chah-Jehan might take some Design to his disadvantage or contrive something with Aureng-Zebe that whatever he could do for gaining the Victory the Reputation which Soliman Chekouh had purchased would still give him all the honour of it And after that what would not he be capable to undertake swelled with so much glory and success and especially being supported as he was by the favour and affection of Chah-Jehan and of the greatest part of the Omrahs What did he know whether he would keep any modesty or any respect for him and whether his Ambition might not carry him These Considerations made Dara resolve to stand out against the counsel of all and to pursue his point And for that purpose he commanded immediately the whole Army to take the Field and thereupon came to take leave of Chah-Jehan who was in the Fortress of Agra This good old Man was ready to melt in tears when he embraced him but withall failed not to represent to him with a very grave countenance Well Dara since thou art resolved to follow thine own will go God bless thee but remember well these few words If thou losest the Battel take heed of ever coming into my Presence But this made no great impression upon him he goeth forth briskly taketh horse and seizeth on the Passage of the River Tchembel which is about Twenty Miles from Agra where he fortified himself expecting his Enemy But the subtile and crafty Fakire who wanted no good Spies and people that gave him intelligence of all and who knew that the Passage was there very difficult took good heed to attempt the forcing it He came to encamp himself near it so that from the Camp of Dara one might discover his Tents But what doth he in the mean time He inveagles a certain Rebel of Raja called Chempet presents him richly and promiseth him a thousand fine things if he would let him pass thorough his Territories that so he might go with speed to gain a certain place where he knew that the River might be passed on foot with ease Chempet agreeth and offers of his own accord that he would himself attend him and shew him the way through the Woods and Hills of his Countrey Aureng-Zebe raised his Camp the same night without any noise leaving some of his Tents to amuse Dara and marching night and day made such haste that he was almost as soon on the other side of the River as Dara could have notice of it Which obliged Dara to abandon the River there and to leave all his Fortifications and to follow his Enemy who he was told did advance with great diligence towards Agra to gain the River of Gemna and there without trouble and at his ease to enjoy the water to fortifie and to fix himself well and so to expect Dara The place where he encamped is but five leagues from Agra it was formerly called Samonguer and now Fateabad which is to say Place of Victory A little while after Dara also came to encamp there nigh the Bank of the same River between Agra and the Army of Aureng-Zebe The two Armies were there between three and four days in sight of one another without fighting Mean time Chah-Jehan wrote several Letters to Dara that Soliman Chekouh was not far off that he should not precipitate that he should come near Agra and chuse an advantageous place to fortifie himself 'till he came But Dara answer'd that before three days were passed he would bring to him Aureng-Zebe and Morad-Bakche tyed hand and foot to do with them what he should think fit And without expecting any longer he began at that very hour to put his Army in Battel array He placed in the Front all his Cannon causing them to be tyed the one to the other with Chains to shut the passage to the Cavalry Behind these Peeces of Cannon he placed also front-wise a great number of light Camels on the forepart of the Bodies whereof they fasten a small Peece of the bigness of a double Musquet a Man sitting on the hind-part of the Camel being able to charge and discharge without lighting Behind these Camels stood the greatest part of the Musqueteers Of the rest of the Army which chiefly consisted in Cavalry furnish'd with Bows and Arrows as ordinarily are the Mogols that is at present white Men Mahumetans strangers as Persians Turks Arabians and Usbecks or with a Sword and a kind of Half-pike as commonly are the Ragipous Of all these I say there were made three different Bodies The right Wing was committed to Calil-ullah-Kan with Thirty Thousand Mogols under his Command for he was made Great Bakchis that is Great Master of the Cavalry in the place of Danechmend-Kan that was afterwards my Agah who voluntarily resigned this Office seeing that he was not well beloved of Dara for having always highly maintained against him the Interest and Authority of Chah-Jehan The left Wing was given to Rustam-Kan Dakny a very renowned and very valiant Captain together with the Raja Chatresale and the Raja Ramseigne Routlé On the other side Aureng-Zebe and Morad-Bakche put also their Army almost into the same Order except that in the midst of the Troops of some Omrahs they had hid some small Field-Peeces which was as was said after the way and Art of Emir-Jemla and with no ill effect They hardly made use of any more Art than what hath been now related only they placed here and there some Men casting Bannes which is a kind of Granado fastened to a stick that may be cast very far through the Cavalry and which extremely terrifieth Horses and even hurts and kills sometimes All this Cavalry turns about very easily and they draw their Arrows with marvellous swiftness one Man being able to draw six of them before a Musqueteer can twice discharge his Musquet The same Cavalry keeps also very close in several Troops under their respective Officers especially when they are going to fight hand to hand But after all I see not that this way of putting an Army in array is any great matter in comparison of our Armies when in good order All things being thus disposed the Artillery began to play on both sides for 't is always the Cannon that makes the prelude amongst them and the Arrows were now seen to fly through the Air when unexpectedly there happen'd to fall a Storm of Rain so violent that it interrupted the Combat The Rain ceasing the Cannon began afresh to roar and then it was that Dara appeared who being mounted upon a proud Elephant of Ceilau commanded that