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OUR ANGLO-INDIAN ARMY.
ordnance and stores were dragged by hand over mountains and through ravines for nearly the whole distance which had to be passed; and this by roads which it was previously necessary for the troops to construct for themselves.[1]
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At midnight on the 12th, Colonel Stevenson erected two batteries in front of the north face of the fort: one consisting of two iron eighteen-pounders, and three iron twelve-pounders, to breach the outer fort and third wall;
- ↑ The ordnance and stores in Indian armies are, in general, drawn by bullocks; to each pair of iron twelve-pounders elephants are attached, which assist them in their draught in very sandy, miry, steep, or difficult places. They raise the wheel or gun, as required, by the application of the proboscis to the muzzle, and push it forward with perfect ease. The sagacity of these animals is wonderful; their tractability no less so. They follow the first gun, relieve the weight from the bullocks, fall to one side, then repeat their assistance to the second, and so on: they will even occasionally chastise the bullocks with their trunks, when they do not pull kindly.
