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OUR ANGLO-INDIAN ARMY.
the instant he had planted the British flag on the rampart he was shot through the head.
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Filing off to the right and left, the storming-parties pressed eagerly forward. The north-west bastion was carried by the party to the right under Colonel Sherbrooke, and all went prosperously, though the discovery of an inner ditch, filled with water, was at first alarming. But the scaffolding used by Tippoo's workmen, and most fortunately left there undisturbed, enabled the British to surmount every obstacle, and enter the body of the place. Captain Molle, commanding the Grenadiers of the Scotch brigade, rushing forward to a cavalier, planted
