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Updated: June 3, 2025
The great shells of the Field Artillery astounded the tribesmen, who had never before witnessed the explosion of a twelve-pound projectile. The two mountain batteries added to their discomfiture. Many fled during the first quarter of an hour of the bombardment. All the rest took cover on the reverse slope and behind their sungars. Meanwhile the flank attack was developing.
"Let us begin. But what if the hill be not held, or if we capture it with the knife, none firing a shot?" "Then get into good position, make little sungars where necessary, and, all being ready, open fire into the Prison compound.... At the first shot whatever be thy luck we shall rush in our thousands down the Sudder Bazaar, West Street and Edward Street, and do as planned.
The bullets kicked up the dust in all directions, or whistled viciously through the air; but the distance was short, and it was soon apparent that the enemy did not mean to abide the assault. When the troops got within 100 yards and fixed bayonets, a dozen determined men were still firing from the sungars.
To heliograph, it was necessary that the operator should be exposed to a terrible fire. In the evening the signal tower was surrounded by men in stone sungars, who kept up an incessant fusillade, and made all exposure, even for an instant, perilous. At midday, after the repulse of the main attack, the guard of the signal tower was reinforced by six men, and food and water were also sent up.
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