"Likely enough the Afridis will be down upon us, as soon as we move." They were, indeed, several times fired at, as they made their way down to the camp, and at one time the resistance was formidable; but they were presently joined by another party from the camp, and the Afridis therefore drew off.
Lisle received many hearty congratulations on his return, and many officers of other regiments came in to shake his hand.
"I shall send in your name again, Mr.Bullen," his colonel said, after Lisle had made his report.

"It was a most gallant action, to defend yourself so long, with only seven men, against a couple of hundred of the enemy; and the loss you inflicted upon them has been very severe, for forty fell close to the house, so that their bodies could not be carried off.

I certainly should reckon that you must have killed or wounded a good many more." "I don't think so, Colonel.

No doubt we killed some more but, as it was dark for the greater part of the time, we could only fire at the flashes of their rifles.

Certainly I saw twelve or fourteen fall, before it became quite dark and, as they several times tried to rush us, others might have fallen far enough from the house to be carried off by their friends." That day General Lockhart placed, in the order of the day, the names of Lisle and his little party as having shown conspicuous gallantry, in defending themselves against a vastly superior force.
Two days later General Lockhart, himself, went out with a strong force to the top of Saransur; but met with little resistance, and the force returned at a much earlier hour than on the previous occasion, and reached camp before nightfall.
In warfare of this kind, it is the wounded who are the cause of disaster.