text:  The prince at his accession found himself master of an army of seventy-five disciplined battalions mostly commanded by French officers and forming an effective force of 45 000 men with 300 well-equipped guns and a vast host of irregular cavalry armed and appointed in the native fashion; and his territories included the so-deemed impregnable fortress of Gwalior as well as Ahmednuggur Aurungabad Broach and other strong places of minor note