What power could withstand a hundred thousand horsemen, here today, there tomorrow?
Then, we had it in our power to waste all the country, and to starve out the fortresses from Cuttack to the north.

Our territory extended from the great mountains on the east, to the sea in the west.
"Now we can only move at the pace of footmen; and while, formerly, no infantry would venture to withstand our charge; now, as you see, a handful of Sepoys set us at defiance, repulsed our charges, and gained Agra simply because our guns and infantry could not arrive to help us." "There can be no doubt that you are right," Harry agreed; "but I cannot blame Scindia and Holkar for forming regiments of infantry, trained by foreign officers.

They had seen how the regiments so raised, by the English, had won great victories in the Carnatic and Bengal; and they did not think at that time that, ere long, they might become formidable to the Mahrattas.

Scindia and Holkar raised their regiments, not to fight against the strangers, but against each other.

It was their mutual hostility that so diminished the strength of the Mahrattas.