While we were endeavouring to clear away the obstacles, a heavy fire was poured into us.

Small parties were therefore sent out to disperse the enemy, and this they did most successfully, capturing three guns and a good deal of ammunition.
"Pushing on, we issued, at six in the morning, on the hills.

Before us was the village of Palel, which was garrisoned by two hundred Manipur soldiers.

You must remember that Manipur had been a sort of subsidiary state, and had a regular army, drilled by Europeans.
However, Grant attacked them at once, and drove them out with loss.
"After halting at Palel for some hours a start was made, at eleven o'clock at night; and at daybreak we came upon some villages, each house in which was standing alone in a large enclosure, surrounded by a wall, ditch, and hedge.

We went at them and carried them, one by one, without any great loss to ourselves.