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lo8 VIEW OF THE ORIGIN AND CONDUCT
houses, adjoining this post. Some companies of his Majesty's
yqth regiment dislodged the enemy from the houses : and after
giving Captain Mackenzie sufficient time to mark out the bat-
tery, they retired in excellent order ; but as this movement
had the appearance of a retreat, the enemy soon after rallied in
great force, and immediately commenced a very heavy fire of
musketry and rockets, whilst the fort kept up a continued lire
from cannon. Although they could not make any impression upon
our post, the circumstance of withdrawing the Europeans, appeared
to have inspired them with so much confidence, that they deter-
mined to make a general attack upon the out-posts of the Bombay
army.
Accordingly, at half past two on the morning of the eed, the
enemy's rocket-men, having got into the rear of General Stuart's
encampment, threw a great number of rockets at the same instant.
This was the signal of assault, for immediately afterwards it was
followed by a prodigious fire of musquetry at all the posts in front
of the Bombay army. They were attacked by about six thousand
of the enemy's infantry, and Lally's corps of Frenchmen, under
the command of Meer Golam Hussein, and Mahomed Huileem,
Meer Meerans. The French appear to have led the attack of the
post on the right, and to have behaved with great spirit, as some
of them fell within the entrenchment upon our bayonets, and
others were killed close to it; but being received with the utmost
steadiness, they were compelled to retire. The other posts were
defended with equal gallantry ; and the enemy having failed in all
their attempts, which were obstinately continued for several hours,
at length retreated, with the loss of six or seven hundred men killed
and wounded.
houses, adjoining this post. Some companies of his Majesty's
yqth regiment dislodged the enemy from the houses : and after
giving Captain Mackenzie sufficient time to mark out the bat-
tery, they retired in excellent order ; but as this movement
had the appearance of a retreat, the enemy soon after rallied in
great force, and immediately commenced a very heavy fire of
musketry and rockets, whilst the fort kept up a continued lire
from cannon. Although they could not make any impression upon
our post, the circumstance of withdrawing the Europeans, appeared
to have inspired them with so much confidence, that they deter-
mined to make a general attack upon the out-posts of the Bombay
army.
Accordingly, at half past two on the morning of the eed, the
enemy's rocket-men, having got into the rear of General Stuart's
encampment, threw a great number of rockets at the same instant.
This was the signal of assault, for immediately afterwards it was
followed by a prodigious fire of musquetry at all the posts in front
of the Bombay army. They were attacked by about six thousand
of the enemy's infantry, and Lally's corps of Frenchmen, under
the command of Meer Golam Hussein, and Mahomed Huileem,
Meer Meerans. The French appear to have led the attack of the
post on the right, and to have behaved with great spirit, as some
of them fell within the entrenchment upon our bayonets, and
others were killed close to it; but being received with the utmost
steadiness, they were compelled to retire. The other posts were
defended with equal gallantry ; and the enemy having failed in all
their attempts, which were obstinately continued for several hours,
at length retreated, with the loss of six or seven hundred men killed
and wounded.