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292 and wounded. The garrison was numerous, and well armed with the Company's new muskets and bayonets: vast numbers of them were killed, particularly at the different gates. The Killadar was a Rajpoot of eminent bravery, who seemed resolved to conquer or die, for his dead body, like the remains of Tippoo Sultan, was found beneath a heap of slain near the principal gate of the fortress; as also that of Beni Singh, another Rajpoot, as bold and intrepid as himself. These two brave men appear to have considered the fall of the place as inevitable; and a more fearful evidence of the determined spirit in which they had acted was afforded by the discovery that, in conformity with the feeling of their country, they had doomed their wives and daughters to become sharers