One doesn't feel so disposed to risk one's life, when there is nothing to be gained.

We did not even succeed in capturing their treasure chest.

If we could have brought our infantry up, we should have destroyed them; but they had to march at the same rate as the guns; and in such weather they could get along but slowly, for it often required the bullocks of four guns to drag one through those quagmires.
"That was where the English had the advantage over us.

The road was, no doubt, bad enough for them; it was infinitely worse for us, after they had cut it up in passing.
"It was a mistake when Scindia began to form regiments of infantry, and Holkar and the Peishwa imitated him.

Before that, we had India at our mercy.