The enemy were undoubtedly misled, and wasted three days in negotiations.
"Then fighting recommenced and, at daybreak, the enemy made a determined attack upon the advance, with artillery.

By eight o'clock they had pushed the attack home, and passed the line of walls and hedges a hundred yards from our position.

The situation was growing serious when, leaving me in command, Grant went out with ten Ghoorkhas, crept along unobserved to the end of one of the walls and, turning this, made a sudden attack upon the enemy from behind.

Taken wholly by surprise they fled, leaving six or seven dead behind them.
"At eleven o'clock they were again pressing hotly and, encouraged by the success of his first sortie, Grant determined to make another.

This time he took me with him.