Akbar Shoots Jaimal At The Siege of Chitor
April 26, 2023
Mirza Firuz Shah
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Akbar 1556–1605
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Date: Between 1590 & 1596
Source: Akbar Nama
Author: Abu'l Fazal
English: The fall of the Rajasthani fortress of Chitor in 1568, when the Mughal army succeeded in approaching the ramparts by constructing covered defenses.
As Akbar surveyed the battle one evening, he took aim with his gun at a figure in the fort whose studded coat indicated that he was a leading enemy soldier. The shot killed the man, who was discovered to be the Rajput hero Jaimal.
The covered lines of attack built by the Mughals allow the army, including armored elephants (center left) to approach the walls of the fortress (shown upper left). Akbar is shown top right, holding the gun called Sangram with which he has just shot a figure in a studded coat.
The figure is Jamal, the general of the enemy army, and the fortress submitted soon afterwards to the Mughal forces.
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