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submit. The second wall being deeply retired, could 
not be breached by either battery, but was carried 
by escalade in the most spirited manner, by a de- 
tachment from the light company of the 94th Regt., 
under Captain Campbell. These, having surmounted 
the wall, cut their way to the gate in defiance of all 
resistance, and succeeded in opening it to the storm- 
ing party, who instantly rushed in and took pos- 
session of the fort. The greater part of the garrison 
who were not slain, expecting no quarter, leaped from 
the battlements, and were dashed to atoms. The 
spot where Benee Singh and his brave followers were 
cut down is marked by a few humble tombs, which 
the Rajhpoots point out with much pride. Although 
in the thoroughfare from the Delhi gate, they might 
otherwise escape the notice of a stranger, so unpre- 
tending are they in appearance ; while they are sur- 
rounded, on all sides, with the ostentatious mauso- 
leums of proud Mussulmans, whose very names have 
long since passed into oblivion. 
Before Benee Singh went to the defence of the 
breach, he had told his wife that he had vowed not 
to outlive the fall of the place, and had exacted from 
her a promise, that if his signet were brought to her, 
which would be a token of his death, she should 
immediately destroy herself ; and in the same event 
he commanded all the women of his household to be 
put to death, according to the Rajhpoot custom in 
such cases. When the Duke entered the fort, he 
