halt. It took some time to place the ladders, and officers and men fell
fast under the hail of bullets. Then as they gathered in strength in the
ditch there was one wild cheer, and they dashed up the slope of rubbish
and stones, and passed through the breach.

The entrance to Delhi was won.

Scrambling breathlessly up, keeping just behind their gallant general, the
Warreners were among the first to win their way into the city.

An equally rapid success had attended the assault upon the breach in the
Water bastion by the second column. Nor were the third far behind in the
assault through the Cashmere gate, But here a deed had first to be done
which should live in the memories of Englishmen so long as we exist as a
nation.

As the head of the assaulting column moved forward a little party started
at the double toward the Cashmere gate. The party consisted of Lieutenants
Home and Salkeld, of the Royal Engineers, and Sergeants Smith and
Carmichael, and Corporal Burgess, of the same corps; Bugler Hawthorne of
the Fifty-second regiment; and twenty-four native sappers and miners under
Havildars Mahor and Tilluh Sing. Each of the sappers carried a bag of
powder, and, covered by such shelter as the fire of the Sixtieth
skirmishers could give them, they advanced to the gate. This gate stands
close to an angle in the wall, and from the parapets a storm of musketry
fire was poured upon them. When they reached the ditch they found the
drawbridge destroyed, but crossed in single file upon the beams on which
it rested. The gate was of course closed, but a small postern-door beside
it was open, and through this the mutineers added a heavy fire to that
which streamed from above. The sappers laid their bags against the gate,