| Babur (Emperor of Hindustan) - Asia, Central - 1826 - 538 pages
...should satisfy his troops, when he was himself miserly to the last degree, and beyond measure avaricious in accumulating pelf? He was a young man of no experience....in battle without foresight. While the troops were 1 That is, of the Ottomans. .' The meaning assigned to Tura, here, and in several other places, is... | |
| Sir Henry Miers Elliot - India - 1872 - 664 pages
...should satisfy his troops, when he was himself miserly to the last degree, and beyond measure avaricious in accumulating pelf? He was a young man of no experience....vicinity, with guns, branches of trees, and ditches, Darwesh Muhammad Sarb&n said to me, "You have fortified our ground in such a way that it is not possible... | |
| Gabrielle Festing - Delhi (India) - 1913 - 494 pages
...pair, and bided his time, quickly realising that his adversary was " a young man of no experience, who marched without order, retired or halted without plan, and engaged in battle without foresight." After a night attack which was repulsed, battle was joined "by the time of early morning prayers."... | |
| Babur (Emperor of Hindustan) - Chagatai language - 1921 - 518 pages
...should satisfy his troops, when he was himself miserly to the last degree, and beyond measure avaricious in accumulating pelf ? He was a young man of no experience....fortifying their position in Panipat and its vicinity, with guns,a branches of trees, and ditches, Derwlsh Muhammed Sarban said to me, ' You have fortified our... | |
| Upendra Nath Ball - India - 1928 - 322 pages
...also vast treasures to enlist more troops. But "he was an unproved youth" says Babar in his Memoirs, ''he was negligent in all his movements, he marched...without plan, and engaged in battle without foresight". Babar had only 12,000 troops, all thoroughly trained although they were exhausted on account of their... | |
| Gérard Chaliand - History - 1994 - 1126 pages
...should satisfy his troops, when he was himself miserly to the last degree, and beyond measure avaricious in accumulating pelf? He was a young man of no experience....vicinity, with guns, branches of trees, and ditches, Muhammed Sarban said to me, "You have fortified our ground in such a way that it is not possible he... | |
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