The troops had been commanded by English officers, in Scindia's service, and these had been imprisoned as soon as the war broke out.

No answer was, therefore, made to the summons to surrender.
On the morning of the 10th, Scindia's infantry were attacked.

They fought stoutly, but were finally defeated, and their twenty-six brass guns captured.

Two days later, two thousand five hundred of them, who had retired when defeated, and taken shelter under the guns of the fort, came over in a body and took service with the British.
Siege operations were at once commenced and, on the 17th, a battery of eight eighteen-pounders opened fire, with such effect that a breach was almost effected; when the garrison released the British officers, and sent them to the camp to offer to surrender.

They were allowed to do so, and to leave the fort with their clothes, but without arms.