Sixteen guns of Horse Artillery, a heavy field battery, and the Naval Brigade with eight guns; the 9th Lancers, the Punjaub Cavalry, and Hodson's Horse; four British regiments of infantry and two of Punjaubies, besides a column 1,500 strong which is expected to join us tomorrow or next day.
"I hope in any case, Major, that we shan't follow the line Havelock took through the narrow streets, for there we cannot use our strength; but will manage to approach the Residency from some other direction.

We know that it stands near the river, and at the very edge of the town, so there ought to be some other way of getting at it.

I consider that we are a match for any number of these scoundrels if we do but get a fair ground for fighting, which we certainly should not do in the streets of the town." "I don't care how it is, so that we do get at them," another officer said.

"We have heard such frightful details of their atrocities as we came up that one is burning to get at close quarters with them.

I suppose we shall go to the Alumbagh first, and relieve the force that has so long been shut up there.