Upon receiving these, they at once placed them in a battery which they had prepared on the northwest of the fort, and opened fire.
So well was this battery placed, and so accurate the aim of its gunner, that the very first shot dismounted one of the eighteen-pounders in the fort.

The second again struck the gun and completely disabled it.

The besieged mounted their second heavy gun in its place, and were preparing to open fire on the French battery, when a shot struck it also and dismounted it.

It was useless to attempt to replace it, and it was, during the night, removed to a portion of the walls not exposed to the fire of the enemy's battery.

The besiegers continued their fire, and in six days had demolished the wall facing their battery, making a breach of fifty feet wide.
Clive, who had now only the two young subalterns serving under him, worked indefatigably.