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Rh Captain Hawes, 5th Oudh Irregular Infantary, and Major Apthorp, 41st N. I.; and was defended by a party of the 32nd Regiment, Sepoy pensioners, 48th N. I. and Gubbins' Levies. On the 26th August Lieutenant Webb, of the 32nd, was killed. Captain Fulton, of the Engineers, a most distinguished officer, also fell here.

On the evening of the 2nd September, Lieutenant Birch, 59th N. L, was accidentally shot by one of our own sentries, who mistook him for an enemy. On 20th July an attack was made, chieﬂy on the south side and around the unfinished south-east bastion. The enemy showed in great numbers; some ascended the south-east slope of the bastion (where the wall was incomplete) to the crest of the parapet, and were shot. Avery considerable force made an attack on the 21st, undeterred by their failure of the preceding day, but were compelled to retire. On the 10th August, another attempt was made to scale the south-west bastion, by bringing scaling ladders close to it. The assaulting party were, however, dislodged by hand grenades. The Goindah lines were destroyed on the 22nd July by a sortie under Colonel Inglis.

This edifice was capacious and double-storied, and was occupied by Mr. Ommanney, the Judicial Commissioner, who was killed by a cannon shot in the Redan on the 5th of July. After the death of Sir Henry Lawrence, Brigadier Inglis established his head-quarters here. The building was protected by a deep ditch and hedge of cactus, and fortified by two guns, intended to sweep the road between Gubbins' post and the Sikh square, in the event of the former falling into the hands of the enemy. General Havelock, and such of his staff as were not wounded, took up their abode in this house. From this he used to walk, every morning, round all the posts of the place, embracing a distance of more than two miles. It was this incessant strain, on an already overstrained body, which produced the dysentery to which he succumbed, at Dilkusha, on the 24th of November.

This was used by the Commissariat Department for the slaughtering of animals (battery bullocks) for the use of the garrison, also for the custody of cattle and bhoosa, or chopped straw. These buildings were originally the out-houses, cook-rooms, stabling, &c., of the Residency; and Were entered through a gateway called the Ghurrie