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OUR ANGLO-INDIAN ARMY.
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which completed the overthrow of this little band of heroes. In the midst of the slaughter, Colonel Baillie, wounded as he was, formed his men into a square, and, without ammunition, received and repulsed thirteen different attacks of the enemy's squadrons![1]

  1. "The colonel could make but a feeble resistance against so superior a force; but his little band yet gallantly supported a very unequal fire, until their whole ammunition had either been blown up or expended. At this dangerous and