He had raised and equipped with arms of precision sixteen regiments of Cavalry and sixty-eight of Infantry, while his Artillery amounted to nearly 300 guns.

Numbers of skilled artisans were constantly employed in the manufacture of rifled cannon and breech-loading small arms.

Swords, helmets, uniforms, and other articles of military equipment, were stored in proportionate quantities.

Upon the construction of the Sherpur cantonment Sher Ali had expended an astonishing amount of labour and money.

The size and cost of this work may be judged from the fact that the main line of rampart, with barrack accommodation, extended to a length of nearly two miles under the western and southern slopes of the Bimaru hills, while the original design was to carry the wall entirely round the hills, a distance of four and a half miles, and the foundations were laid for a considerable portion of this length.