Issuing from the palm grove, they made repeated charges against the greatly superior forces of the enemy.

But numbers told, and the Mahrattas, fighting fiercely, were driven back into the palm grove; where they, with difficulty, maintained themselves.
In the meantime, the fight was going on at the centre.

Clive opened fire with his guns on the long column marching, almost across his front, to attack the village.

The enemy, finding themselves exposed to a fire which they were powerless to answer, quitted the causeway, and formed up in the rice fields fronting the English position.

The guns, protected only by a few Frenchmen and natives, remained on the causeway.
Clive now despatched two of his guns, and fifty English, to aid the hard-pressed Mahrattas in the grove; and fifty others to the village, with orders to join the Sepoys there, to dash forward on to the causeway, and charge the enemy's guns.
As the column issued from the village along the causeway, at a rapid pace, the French limbered up their guns and retired at a gallop.