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120 would Sir Hugh Rose allow the siege operations to be for an instant relaxed with the other. Anxious to profit by the discouragement caused among the besieged and the fresh energy infused into the besiegers, the General resolved to strike at once. He gave his men no rest and they themselves did not expect it. Breach or no breach he determined that Jhánsí should be taken on the 3rd of April. And it was taken. For the men under his command, although well-nigh tired out, were no less confident and resolute.

The front and enfilading fire on the breach was so heavy that except from the fort the enemy made but little resistance at this point; but at the rocket battery on the left, which was taken by escalade, and also along the defence works on the left, likewise taken by escalade, they made a desperate resistance; first with artillery fire, rockets, stink-pots, &c., and then in a hand-to-hand fight with spears and swords.

Though the 3rd Europeans under Lieutenant-Colonel Liddell did their duty bravely, the attack by escalade on the right failed, on account of the short-