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assault, even at the risk of losing lives in so doing. Accordingly Captain 
Johnson gave orders for a general assault, and with about seventy Sikhs 
and thirty Makua dashed across the plain through the ruined precincts of 
the outer town and up to the high wall of the inner citadel, over which he 
and the other officers and the Sikhs swarmed and scrambled. The first Sikh 
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who succeeded in climbing to the top of the wall, which was about eight 
feet high, and began to haul up his comrades, was shot dead. Otherwise 
there were no casualties on our part but severe wounds. Once the troops had 
got on the top of this high wall of the citadel the enemy were completely 
at their mercy and huddled together in a seething mass below. Appalled at 
the idea of the slaughter that must ensue from continual firing, Captain 
Johnson’gave the order “ cease firing.” This leniency on his part was taken 
