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LIVES OF THE MOGHUL EMPERORS. 
CHAPTER VII. 
a.d. 1528. 
When the monsoon subsided in the year 1528, 
the emperor marched to Sambhul, the government of 
which he had bestowed upon the Prince Humaioon ; 
and having diverted himself for some time with the 
pleasures of the chase, he was taken ill of a fever, 
which obliged him to return to his capital. Upon 
his recovery he determined to proceed against Chan- 
dery, a fortress in Malwa, garrisoned by a numerous 
body of Rajpoots. He accordingly marched with 
a well-supplied park of artillery, and reached that 
place on the nineteenth of January. Chandery was 
strongly fortified : a rampart extended round the town, 
which was further protected by a citadel upon a hill, 
the town being built upon the slope below. The gar- 
rison was composed of troops proverbially brave — for 
Rajpoots are seldom known to yield to a foe. 
Having made the necessary arrangements, prepared 
the scaling-ladders and turas, (a sort of shed under 
cover of which the besiegers advanced to breach the 
walls,) on the twenty-eighth of January the empe- 
ror advanced close to the fort, determined to storm 
it on the following day. Just as he had taken 
up his position, he received intelligence that the 
