Show against this total available fight fi in ng lorce force of men etere ere arrayed nearly natives led bv nana sahib well armed nith rifles rides and cannon and supplied with unlimited atoni ammunition attebe at the best beat tile the provisions ot of th the defenders could only last four weeks one L mall email w well all was ther their only water waier and their forti 1 fixations ficat ions thrown up hastily were in places barely three feet high in this weak furt fort the little band braving death every moment resisted the attacks of the natives for more than three weeks but during ir that time three fourths of the men tile perished some succumbed to sickness caused by the heat h at mory more perished in an effort to secure water the well the only one in the place was wa 3 exposed to the fire of the enemy and whenever a man ap preached pro ached it lie he was sure of drawing the fire of the natives in this way i scores of the men perished and as there was no way to dispose of their bodies save by throwing them m oer er the ramparts the death of one added to the danger of the others tile the one boat that escaped the first fire cre i was as followed but lour men from it managed 0 to o reach aldaha I 1 bad and tell the story of the treachery general havelock at once set out lor for Cawn pore As he began his bis attack upon tile city he saw the women and ami children who had bad been seized croul the boats brought out ilisie the wall ebey wei nearly naked and their cries cries were pitiful I 1 the right rendered the british attack doubly furious but when they entered the rity city from which they had driven the natives all thoy they found of the fearfully tortured captives were their mutilated bodies cut clit and mangled and thrown into a well new york world |