{"book":"adl0970","page":113,"text":"76\n\nhad no artillery; their Indian allies had brought\nwith them about thirty pieces of cannon of differ-\nent calibres.\n\nSuch was the numerical strength and equip-\nment of these two forces that now lay face to\nface on the famous battle-field, which had previ-\nously twice decided the fate of India. But the\ninadequacy of number and equipment of the\nAfghan force was duly compensated by the\ngeneralship of its leader and the bravery of its\nsoldiers. Ahmad Shah with the small number of\nhis men did not think it advisable to attack the\nenemy in their strong position. He was, therefore,\nobliged to adopt similar precautionary measures\nand to throw lines of trenches round his camp.\n\nBhao, who had fine Marhatta cavalry at his\ndisposal, dispatched raiding parties to harry the\ncountry around in order to prevent supplies from\nreaching the Afghan camp. Govind Rao Bodela\nwith his 12,000 horses, was ordered to carry this\nplan out. He harassed the Afghans in the rear of\ntheir camp, intercepting all supplies. Bhao also\nemployed his light cavalry for this very end. As\na result of this blockade the Afghans began to","chars":1109,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00113.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/113","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/113","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0970/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0970_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}