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attack the works that the ene- 

 my were constructing on the 

 heights above the Karrigat Pa- 

 goda. 



" The officers commanding the 

 leading corps in the right and 

 center divisions were directed, 

 after driving the enemy from 

 their camp, to endeavour to 

 pursue them through the river, 

 and estabiifti themselves on the 

 island ; and it was recommend- 

 ed to lieutenant colonel Max- 

 well, to attempt to pafs the 

 river, if, after having pofsefsed 

 himself of the heights, he saw 

 that our attack on the camp 

 was succefsful. 



" The left and center divi- 

 sions were so fortunate as to 

 accomplidi completely the ob- 

 jects proposed. Lieutenant 

 colonel Maxwell gained the 

 heights, and afterwards pafsed 

 the river, and the first five corps 

 of the center division crofsed o- 

 vertothe island, leaving me in 

 pofsefsion of the camp, which 

 was standing, and of all the ar- 

 tillery of the enemy's right 

 wing. 



" The division of tlie right, 

 by some of those accidents to 

 which all operations in the night 

 are liable, approached much 

 too near a very str-ong detached 

 work, which it was not my in- 

 tentioa to afsault that night, 

 and which must have fallen in- 

 to our harKis without giving us 

 any trouble, if we succeeded 

 in forcing the jenemy's camp. 

 " Tke advanced guard enga- 



ged in the attack of this work, 

 before they could be prevented 

 by the officers in the front of 

 the column, and the latter who 

 had been used to carry forts 

 with great facility, did not 

 think it necefsary, or, perhaps, 

 creditable, to oblige them to 

 desist ; but the garrison of this 

 redoubt conducted themselves 

 very differently from those 

 which we had lately met with, 

 and their resistance was so ob- 

 stinate, that it was not carried 

 without costing us several lives^ 

 and a very considerable delay. 

 " By this time the firing at 

 the center attack had entirely 

 ceased, and general Meadows, 

 concluding from ihat circuin- 

 stance that I was in complete 

 pofsefsion of the whole of the 

 enemy's camp, and apprehen- 

 ding that a part of his corps 

 might be wanted to support 

 the troops on the island, wifh- 

 ed to communicate with me as 

 speedily as pofsible. 



" Some guides, v?ho under- 

 took to lead his division to joia 

 mine by a direct road, conduc- 

 ted him to the Karrigat Pago- 

 da without his meeting with 

 me, and day-light was then too 

 near to admit of his underta- 

 king any farther operations. 



" These untoward circum- 

 stances did not deprive us of any 

 of the solid advantages of our 

 victory, for we are in pofsefsi- 

 on of the whole of the enemy's 

 redoubts, of all the ground oa 

 the north side of the river, and 



