It is scandalous that they should not have been pushed forward, at once, when we asked for them.

Still more so that, when they once started, they should not have come on with the greatest possible speed.

I doubt whether we shall be able to hold these cowardly curs together till tomorrow.

If they bolt, the sepoys will be sure to do so, too; in fact, their position would be altogether untenable, for the Burmese could march round this flank and take them in rear.
"I wish to Heaven we had two or three companies of white troops, to cover a retreat.

There would be no fear of the sepoys yielding to a panic, if they had British troops with them; but when they are outnumbered, as they are now, one can hardly blame them if they lose heart, when the enemy are ten times their strength, and will be twenty to one against them, if our fellows here bolt." The next morning, the Burmese had pushed up their trenches to within twelve paces of the British lines, and a tremendous fire was opened.