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VIEW OF THE ORIGIN AND CONDUCT
were laid by ten o'clock in the morning of the 29th; but owing
to the guns being dragged through the approaches, which in
some places proved soft and swampy, they sunk deep, and not-
withstanding every possible exertion, could not be brought into
the battery. This occasioned the loss of one day's bring upon
the north-west bastion ; which at a time, when the Sultaun had
manifested some disposition to negotiate, might have been of
importance.
On the 2gth at night, a battalion of sepoys was employed as a
working party. They repaired the embrasures of the eight and
the four-gun batteries ; and widened and deepened the zig-zag in
the rear of the breaching battery.
At the same time Captain Mackenzie enlarged the enfilading
battery, by adding two guns to its left; from which he also ex-
tended a place of arms, for the reception of four held pieces (in
addition to the six eighteen pounders,) for the purpose of increas-
ing the enfilading fire during the assault. It was expected, that
so powerful an enhlade, m would render it almost im-
possible for the Sultaun's troops to remain on the curtains of the
first or second walls, for the defence of the breach.
It was very remarkable, that the enemy seldom disturbed the
working parties at night; and although they still retained some
footing in the entrenchment, they seldom bred a inusquet during
the day.
On the morning of the goth, the six-gun breaching battery
commenced bring against the N. W. bastion, and continued
VIEW OF THE ORIGIN AND CONDUCT
were laid by ten o'clock in the morning of the 29th; but owing
to the guns being dragged through the approaches, which in
some places proved soft and swampy, they sunk deep, and not-
withstanding every possible exertion, could not be brought into
the battery. This occasioned the loss of one day's bring upon
the north-west bastion ; which at a time, when the Sultaun had
manifested some disposition to negotiate, might have been of
importance.
On the 2gth at night, a battalion of sepoys was employed as a
working party. They repaired the embrasures of the eight and
the four-gun batteries ; and widened and deepened the zig-zag in
the rear of the breaching battery.
At the same time Captain Mackenzie enlarged the enfilading
battery, by adding two guns to its left; from which he also ex-
tended a place of arms, for the reception of four held pieces (in
addition to the six eighteen pounders,) for the purpose of increas-
ing the enfilading fire during the assault. It was expected, that
so powerful an enhlade, m would render it almost im-
possible for the Sultaun's troops to remain on the curtains of the
first or second walls, for the defence of the breach.
It was very remarkable, that the enemy seldom disturbed the
working parties at night; and although they still retained some
footing in the entrenchment, they seldom bred a inusquet during
the day.
On the morning of the goth, the six-gun breaching battery
commenced bring against the N. W. bastion, and continued