In and around the summer house, thirty-five of the enemy were bayoneted, and a dozen more shot.

That evening the garrison began to drive a couple of counter mines, to intercept any other mines that the enemy might attempt to make.
On the 18th the enemy were very quiet and, in the middle of the night, a man approached the fort and called out that Sher Afzul had fled, and that the relieving force was near at hand.

Lieutenant Gurdon was sent out to reconnoitre, and he found that the whole place was deserted.

The next afternoon, Colonel Kelly's force arrived..