{"book":"adl0970","page":120,"text":"83\n\ncut to pieces, gave instructions for advance, at\nthe same time directing a division on his left to\nwheel up and take the enemy in the rear and\nflank. This skilful manoeuvre at the opportune\ntime decided the fate of the battle. All at\nonce, as if by miracle, the whole Marahatta\narmy turned back and fled at full speed, leaving\nthe battle-field covered with the dying and dead.\nThe Commander-in-Chief of the Marhatta forces,\nthe heir-apparent to the throne, and almost all\nthe chief officers and the greater part of the\narmy perished in battle or in flight. The pursuit\nby moonlight cost the fleeing multitude tens of\nthousands of their precious lives; their ponies\nwere easily overtaken by the swift-footed Afghan\nhorses. Later a glimpse of the tragedy was given\nby a banker's letter to one of his correspondents,\nwhich ran : \"Two invaluable pearls have been\ndissolved, twenty-seven gold Mohurs have been\nlost, and of the silver and copper coins the total\ncannot be easily estimated.\" By the pearls he\nmeans the commander and the next in command\nof the Marhatta forces, while gold Mohurs refer\nto officers that had fallen in the battle. Almost\nall the Marhatta chiefs were either killed or","chars":1193,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00120.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/120","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/120","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."}}