In front of the ground he occupied were rice fields, which, it being the wet season, were very swampy, and altogether impracticable for guns.

These fields were crossed by a causeway which led to the village, but as it ran at an angle across them, those advancing upon it were exposed to the fire of the English front.

Clive posted the Sepoys in the village, the Mahratta horsemen in the grove, and the two hundred English, with the guns, on the ground between them.
The enemy advanced at once.

His native cavalry, with some infantry, marched against the grove; while the French troops, with about fifteen hundred infantry, moved along the causeway against the village.
The fight began on the English left.

There the Mahratta cavalry fought bravely.