Grillet and Co._] The mutineers had selected an admirable position on both sides of the main road.

To their right was a serai and a walled village capable of holding large numbers of Infantry, and protected by an impassable swamp.

To their left, on some rising ground, a sand-bag battery for four heavy guns and an 8-inch mortar had been constructed.

On both sides the ground was swampy and intersected by water-cuts, and about a mile to the enemy's left, and nearly parallel to the road, ran the Western Jumna Canal.
At the hour named, Brigadier Hope Grant,[5] commanding the Cavalry, started with ten Horse Artillery guns, three squadrons of the 9th Lancers, and fifty Jhind horsemen under Lieutenant Hodson, with the object of turning the enemy's left flank.

Shortly afterwards the main body marched along the road until the lights in the enemy's camp became visible.