One of his three remaining officers, seeing an enemy taking deliberate aim at him through a window, endeavoured to pull him aside.

The native changed his aim, and the officer fell dead.

On three other occasions sergeants, who accompanied him on his rounds, were shot dead by his side.

Yet no ball touched him.
Provisions had been stored in the fort, before the commencement of the siege, sufficient for sixty days; and of this a third was already exhausted when, on the 14th of October, the French troops serving with Riza Sahib received two eighteen-pounders, and seven smaller pieces of artillery.

Hitherto the besiegers had contented themselves with harassing the garrison night and day, abstaining from any attack which would cost them lives, until the arrival of their guns.