[With Clive in India by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookWith Clive in India CHAPTER 8: The Grand Assault 12/21
The English did not lose a single man.
Many of Riza Sahib's soldiers came in, during the next few days, and enlisted in the British force.
The Mahrattas captured the treasure, the prospect of which had induced them to join in the fight, and the governor of Arni agreed to hold the town for Muhammud Ali. Clive moved on at once to Conjeveram, where thirty French troops and three hundred Sepoys occupied the temple, a very strong building. Clive brought up two eighteen-pounders from Madras, and pounded the walls; and the enemy, seeing that the place must fall, evacuated it in the night, and retired to Pondicherry.
North Arcot being now completely in the power of the English, Clive returned to Madras; and then sailed to Fort Saint David, to concert measures with Mr.Saunders for the relief of Trichinopoli.
This place still held out, thanks rather to the feebleness and indecision of Colonel Law, who commanded the besiegers, than to any effort on the part of the defenders. Governor Dupleix, at Pondicherry, had seen with surprise the result of Clive's dash upon Arcot.
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