A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . . barracks was a well whichserved as the general grave of allwho were killed or died within theentrenchment. The lines of this weredefended by the Redan under MajorVibart of the 2nd Bengal Cavalry onthe N., by Ashes Battery and byEcfords on the E., by TotburysGun and Dempsters Battery in aprojection on the W. side, and bybrave hearts all round ; but exceptfor repelling assaults and keeping theenemy at a greater distance, theguns were of but little avail. Thetwo barracks, one of them with athatched roof, were entirely unpro-tected, and the
A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . . barracks was a well whichserved as the general grave of allwho were killed or died within theentrenchment. The lines of this weredefended by the Redan under MajorVibart of the 2nd Bengal Cavalry onthe N., by Ashes Battery and byEcfords on the E., by TotburysGun and Dempsters Battery in aprojection on the W. side, and bybrave hearts all round ; but exceptfor repelling assaults and keeping theenemy at a greater distance, theguns were of but little avail. Thetwo barracks, one of them with athatched roof, were entirely unpro-tected, and the only well in theentrenchment, 60 ft. deep, wasexposed to the full fire of the yet the dauntless British fewheld out for twenty days, and thenonly yielded because provisions werenearly exhausted. The proximity ofthe enemys guns to the entrenchmentwould be incredible were it not thatthe distances were carefully recordedimmediately after the recapture of Sketch. 3Iapof the ENTRElSrCH]VIEJSrT A 0 D Tivo 18pr iOne^ Zi prUOO^ardl ^^ ^ JJenipster Ma. Fitl<iJ^affti TJTT^^ Jar-rack occupied by jjiSifuen iinder (apt. JewO^is (J \\ t4? ^^r Sati Chaura (Tuthouse ^^^^ M 6h€\f lottery IJoW*. v?^ £<irracl:: orciipied by I/SjTien li^rtfier (J \.£cJcforclsBattery O 7^7it/rn^ witfv0714 .9pr. Z50 V*f SOOYde [To face-p. 302. ROUTE 22. THE CAWNPORE ENTRENCHMENT 303 the place in July. By the nth Junethe enemy had three mortars, two24-pounders, three i8-pounders, oneor two 12- and 9-pounders, and one6-pounder playing on the entrench-ment ; and on the 12th June thethatched barrack was set on fire,and thereafter over 200 of thosewithin the entrenchment lived dayand night in the open, in a tempera-ture of 120-140 degrees of heat. Onthe 15th June Captain Moore led asuccessful sally which resulted in thespiking of five guns and the blowingup of a 24-pounder; but the suppliesfrom the captured magazine werepractically inexhaustible, and suchbravery could produce no per
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