The heat all the while was terrific, and several of our men were knocked over by the sun.
The lesson taught us by this severe fighting was the importance of occupying the Sabzi Mandi, and thus preventing the enemy from approaching too close to the camp and enfilading the Ridge.

This entailed more constant duty upon our already overworked soldiers, but Barnard felt that it would not do to run the risk of another such struggle.
A piquet of 180 Europeans was accordingly placed in the Sabzi Mandi, part in a serai on one side of the Grand Trunk Road, and the rest in a Hindu temple on the opposite side.

These posts were connected by a line of breastworks with the Hindu Rao piquets, and added considerably to the strength of our position.
After the 23rd there were real or threatened attacks daily; but we were left fairly undisturbed until the 27th June, when the Metcalfe and Sabzi Mandi piquets were assaulted, and also the batteries on the Ridge.

These attempts were defeated without any very great loss, only 13 of our men being killed, and 1 officer and 48 men wounded.
[Footnote 1: The late Major-General Sir Harry Tombs, V.C., K.C.B.] [Footnote 2: The Chaplain's Narrative of the siege of Delhi.] [Footnote 3: Now the 1st Battalion, 2nd Gurkhas.] [Footnote 4: 'Siege of Delhi; by an Officer who served there.'] [Footnote 5: The late General Sir Hope Grant, G.C.B.] [Footnote 6: 75th and 1st Bengal Fusiliers.] [Footnote 7: 1st Battalion 60th Rifles, 2nd Bengal Fusiliers, and Sirmur battalion.] [Footnote 8: Swampy ground.] [Footnote 9: 'The Indian Mutiny,' by George W.Forrest.] [Footnote 10: The bastions were small, each mounting from ten to fourteen pieces of Artillery; they were provided with masonry parapets about 12 feet in thickness, and were about 16 feet high.

The curtain consisted of a simple masonry wall or rampart 16 feet in height, 11 feet thick at top, and 14 or 15 feet at bottom.