When these defences were completed, he raised a second line of barricades some distance further back; and here, when the assault was expected, he placed one of his battalions, with orders that, if the inner line of entrenchments was carried, they should allow all the defenders of that post to pass through, and then resist until the town was completely evacuated, when they were to fall back upon the fort.

He had, however, little fear that his position would be taken at the first assault.
Upon the evening of the third day, the besiegers' fire had done its work, and a gap in the wall some eighty yards wide was formed.

The garrison were ordered to hold themselves in readiness, and a strict watch was set.
Towards morning, a distant hum in the nizam's camp proclaimed that the troops were mustering for the assault.

The besiegers' guns had continued their fire all night, to prevent working parties from placing obstacles in the breach.

As the first shades of daylight appeared the fire ceased, and a great column of men poured forward to the assault.
The few remaining guns upon the end wall opened upon them, as did the infantry who lined the parapet, while the guns in the castle at once joined in.