r front. I think that they intended to try
and take their old position now that we had got theirs. In an instant,
horse artillery and cavalry were ordered to the front, and we then went
at a gallop through our own batteries, the men cheering us as we leaped
over the sandbags, and halted under the Moree bastion under as heavy a
fire of round shot, grape, and canister, as I have ever in my life been
peppered with. Our artillery dashed to the front, unlimbered, and
opened upon the enemy, and at it they went, hammer and tongs. We had no
infantry with us; all the infantry were fighting in the city. The enemy
came out against us with large bodies of infantry and cavalry, and then
began the fire of musketry. It was tremendous. There we were (9th
Lancers, 1st, 2nd, and 4th Sikh Guide Cavalry, and Hodson's Horse),
protecting the artillery, who were threatened by their infantry and
cavalry. All this time we never returned a shot. Our artillery blazed
away, of course; but we had to sit in our saddles, and be knocked over.
However, I am happy to say we saved the guns. The front we showed was
so steady as to keep the enemy back, till some of the Guide infantry
came down and went at them. Here we had had to sit for three hours in
front of a lot of gardens, perfectly impracticable for cavalry, under a
fire of musketry which I have seldom seen equalled, and the enemy quite
concealed. Had we retired, they would at once have taken our guns. Had
the guns retired with us, we should have lost the position."

Night put an end to the desperate struggle. A considerable portion of
the city remained in the hands of the victors, but in other parts the
rebels still held out. During this day's operations the casualties
amounted to 1170 killed, wounded, and missing.

The victorious British continued making progress day by day, driving the
enemy before them through the city. The magazine still remained in the
power of the rebels. Lieutenant-Colonel Deacon, of the 61st Regiment,
led the attack. In silence his men approached the city: not a trigger
was pulled till the stormers and supports reached the walls; when, with
a loud cheer, they rushed on at the enemy, who, taken by surprise, threw
down the port-fires at their guns, and fled before them. Some were
bayoneted close to the breach as they attempted to escape, and others,
flying, were followed by the 61st and the 4th Punjaub Infantry.

Captain Norman accompanied a party under Li