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342 arrived, and as soon as the gates were forced they all rushed into the fort. The mutineers were numerous and desperate, and were encouraged by their native officers to make a firm stand; but the charge of the cavalry and the remnant of the 69th, under the personal command of Colonel Gillespie, together with the fire of the gallopers, broke and dispersed them: three or four hundred were cut to pieces on the spot; some hundreds threw down their arms and cried for quarter, while the rest fled in all directions. A considerable number escaped through the sally-port; but some hundreds were taken in hiding-places, and imprisoned. The disaffection had not reached the native cavalry, for they charged as fiercely as our own