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SCENES IN INDIA. 
Lieutenant Dunlop, by whom it was commanded, re- 
ceived a wound in the ascent, and the Sultan pass- 
ed the nearest traverse as the column quitted the 
breach. A succession of well-constructed traverses 
were most vigorously defended ; and a flanking fire of 
musketry from the inner rampart did great execution 
upon the assailants. All the commissioned officers 
attached to the leading companies were soon either 
killed or disabled, and the loss would at any rate 
have been great, had not a very critical assistance 
been received. When the assailants first surmounted 
the breach they were not a little surprised by the 
sight of a deep, and, to appearance, impassable, ditch, 
between the exterior and interior lines of defence. A 
detachment of the Twelfth regiment having discovered 
a narrow strip of the terreplein, left for the passage of 
the workmen, got up the inner rampart of the enfiladed 
face without much opposition, and wheeling to the 
left, drove before them the musketeers, who were gall- 
ing the assailants of the left attack, and they at last 
reached the flank of the traverse which was defended 
by the Sultan. The two columns of the English on 
the outer and inner rampart then moved in a position 
to expose the successive traverses to a front and flank 
fire at the same time, and forced the enemy from one 
to another, till they perceived the British of the right 
attack over the eastern gate, and ready to fall upon 
them in the rear ; when they broke and hastened to 
escape. The Sultan continued on foot during the 
greater part of this time, performing the part rather of 
a common soldier than of a general, firing several times 
upon the assailants with his own hands. But a little 
