The infantry advanced several times, but were always driven back as soon as they reached the six-hundred-yards limit.
"It was now becoming dark, and the enemy were working round on our flank.

We therefore fell back on the entrenched position and, though the enemy kept up a heavy fire till two in the morning, ammunition was too scanty to allow us to waste a cartridge, and no reply was made.

At three we set to work to strengthen the defences, using baskets filled with earth and sacks filled with sand, as well as adding to the abattis.
"In the course of the day the enemy sent in a flag of truce, offering to allow us to retreat.

This Grant refused to do, till all prisoners still in the hands of the Manipuris were delivered over to him.

In order to deceive the enemy as to his strength, Grant put on a colonel's badge and uniform and, in his communications with the enemy, spoke and behaved as if he had the whole regiment under his command in the village.