The Queen Required He Would Restore Her Other Son, Whom He Kept
As An Hostage, That She Might Not Be Deprived Of Both, And In The Mean
Time Raised All The Forces She Was Able.
Not aware of her intentions,
Badur sent her son to Chitore, on which she immediately put herself
under the protection of Humayun.
Badur immediately drew together an army
of 100,000 horse, 415,000 foot, 1000 cannon, 600 armed elephants, and
6000 carriages, with which he besieged Chitore, and battered its walls
with great fury. While engaged in this siege, he received information
that the army he had sent to ravage the country of the Moguls had been
defeated with the loss of 20,000 men. He at length got possession of
Chitore by policy more than force, after losing 15,000 men during the
siege; but the queen made her escape with all her family and wealth. He
repaired the fortifications of Chitore, in which he left Minao Husseyn
with a garrison of 12,000 men. He then marched to meet the army of the
Moguls, which was advancing through Mandou or Malwa in order to
relieve Chitore. On learning that Chitore had fallen, and that Badur was
intrenched with his army at Dozor, Humayun marched to that place and
took up a position with so much judgment that the army of Badur was
reduced to extremity for provisions. Being unable to extricate his army
from this state of difficulty, Badur fled with all speed to Mandou, or
Mundu near the Nerbuddah on the southern frontier of Malwa,
accompanied by Mustapha Rumi Khan and a few Portuguese.
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