It must have been indifference, an over-confidence born of the proved submissiveness of the native character, when confronted by even one or two stern Britons in their war paint.

But, however that may be, it was a fatal discovery that the mob had made.

They were full of courage, now, and they broke into the fort and massacred the helpless soldiers and their officers.
Hastings escaped from Benares by night and got safely away, leaving the principality in a state of wild insurrection; but he was back again within the month, and quieted it down in his prompt and virile way, and took the Rajah's throne away from him and gave it to another man.

He was a capable kind of person was Warren Hastings.

This was the only time he was ever out of ammunition.