UNIVERSAL HISTORY.—THE MODERN WORLD.

within the fortifications; but the event soon
showed that the end was not yet. Though
the garrison was strongly reinforced, though
the danger that the Residency might be car-
ried by storm and the defenders be given up
to butchery was for the time removed, yet
from another point of view the peril of the
situation was hardly less than it had been dur-
ing the summer months? The forces which
Havelock and Outram had been able to bring

discipline. They also perceived that they had
put everything on the cast of the die. They
understood well enough that in case of the
failure of the mutiny, Great Britain would
visit upon them a terrible punishment for their
rebellion, treacheries, and murders. They
fought with desperation, and the English gar-
rison found no relief by day or night. A
storm of bullets and cannon-shot poured con-
stantly on the defenses, and the losses of the

ATTACK ON THE ALAMBAGH.

with them were by no means sufficient to war-
rant a withdrawal from the defenses and ex-
posure to the open country. The numbers
within the inclosure of the Residency had
been greatly increased, but the consumption of
supplies was correspondingly augmented. On
the whole, the peril was only lessened and
postponed, rather than removed. Nor were the
besieging hosts greatly discouraged. The Sepoys
had learned to fight. Their long contact with
the British army had given them courage and

besieged were severe. The hot sun of the In-
dian summer and autumn scorched the sufferers
in the inclosure with burning heat. Disease
and wasting added to the ever-accumulating
sorrows. Battle was before the gates, pesti-
lence in the air and water. Not only was the
whole force of the English again shut up
within the defenses of the Residency, but the
small garrison which Havelock had left in the
Alambagh was also besieged, and could hardly
hold its own against the constant assaults of

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