Kaye's and Malleson's History of the Indian mutiny of 1857-8 . llMt Itf t^ r^^ Intrenched Pdsitidn (/ COVERING THE. 1857.] THE ENEMY AFTER CHINHAT. 291 joined together by mud walls and trenches—tlie mud wallsfor defence from outer attack, the trenches for pro-tection against the enemys shells ! Such, in a few Tncl^encio-words, was the enclosure known to the world, from ^^^^: Whatthe principal building within it, as the Eesidency. ^*^**^It is true that the walls of the houses were thick, that the brickswere of that small class peculiar to India during the last cen-tuiy, and that they were cemen
Kaye's and Malleson's History of the Indian mutiny of 1857-8 . llMt Itf t^ r^^ Intrenched Pdsitidn (/ COVERING THE. 1857.] THE ENEMY AFTER CHINHAT. 291 joined together by mud walls and trenches—tlie mud wallsfor defence from outer attack, the trenches for pro-tection against the enemys shells ! Such, in a few Tncl^encio-words, was the enclosure known to the world, from ^^^^: Whatthe principal building within it, as the Eesidency. ^*^**^It is true that the walls of the houses were thick, that the brickswere of that small class peculiar to India during the last cen-tuiy, and that they were cemented by well-tempered even the strongest houses constitute but a poor militaryposition, especially when those houses are, to a great extent,commanded from higher buildings outside. This position,moreover was blockaded and attacked by the enemy before, asI have said, a single part of it had been made really the blockade progressed, and whilst the enemy were erectingbatteries, mounting guns, throwing up barricades, and loop-holing the empty houses outside of, but close to, the enclosure
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