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Updated: May 17, 2025
Jumping over the bales of silk, he swung over his head a matchlock he had seized from one of his peons, and brought it down with a horizontal sweep. Two of the Bengalis among the crowd of lathiwallahs, who were hanging back out of reach of the boatmen's pikes, were swept off the cart.
But Parmiter and Diggle, followed by half a dozen of the sailors, and a score of the more determined lathiwallahs and musketeers with clubbed muskets, succeeded in clambering to the top of the carts and prepared to jump down among the defenders, most of whom were busily engaged in jabbing at the men swarming in between the wheels.
The whole of the seamen and many of the Bengalis surged forward after him. Behind the breastwork all the men were now mixed up musketeers with pikemen and lathiwallahs. Upon these came the swarming enemy, some clambering over the carts, others wriggling between the wheels.
The half pikes of the boatmen were terrible weapons at close quarters, more formidable than the cutlasses of the seamen balked by the breastwork, or the loaded bamboo clubs of the lathiwallahs. Sunman, the mate, was one of the first victims; he fell to a shot from Bulger.
"The Faujdar of Hugli is an officer of the Nawab; hoc sat est tibi blunt language, but the phrase is Tully's." "Well, I waive that. But I am not satisfied that you, an Englishman, have authority to act for the Faujdar of Hugli. The crowd I see before me a rabble of lathiwallahs clearly cannot be the Faujdar's men." At this point he heard an exclamation from Bulger.
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