over it; and while the parapets were injured, the arches remained intact.

After all this fighting, the British loss was but six killed and twenty-
three wounded--among the latter being that brave officer Major Renaud,
whose leg was broken by a musket shot while leading the Madras Fusiliers.

Finding that the resistance was becoming more and more obstinate, General
Havelock sent off a horseman to Brigadier General Neil at Allahabad,
begging him to send up three hundred more British troops with all speed.
On receiving the message General Neil sent off two hundred and twenty-
seven men of the Eighty-fourth Regiment in bullock vans, with orders to do
twenty-five miles a day, which would take them to Cawnpore in less than
five days. He himself came on with the reinforcements, Allahabad being by
this time quiet and safe.

At daybreak next morning the troops marched fourteen miles, halted, and
cooked their food; after which, at one o'clock, they prepared to attack
the enemy, who were, our spies told us, in a position extremely strong in
the front, but capable of being attacked by a flank movement. In the
burning heat of the sun, with men falling out fainting at every step, the
troops, under a heavy artillery fire of the enemy, turned off the road and
swept round to execute the flank movement as calmly and regularly as if on
parade.

When they reached the points assigned to them for the attack they
advanced; and then, while the skirmishers and the artillery engaged the
enemy, who were strongly posted in the inclosures of a village, the main
body lay down. The enemy's guns were, however, too strongly posted to be
silenced, and the Seventy-eighth were ordered to take the position by
assault. The Highlanders moved forward in a steady line until within a