Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c56.s13.29

v4.c56.s13.29

But General Lake, coming up from the south, sighted Perron’s army about nine in the morning of the 29th of August. Avoiding the trap laid against a frontal attack, he left the town of Koil on his west, swerved to the east, skirting the southern and eastern edges of the big marsh, and struck Perron’s army at its extreme left flank. Already as soon as his manœuvre was seen to develop, Perron’s horsemen had broken up and begun a hurried retreat towards the fort. The only opposition offered to the English came from a high village beyond the extreme left of Perron’s lines, where an outlying picquet of irregular infantry fired random shots from their matchlocks. But the obstacle was quickly overcome, and the village was stormed by the British sepoys. Here Lake’s army suffered their only casualties of the day, less than a dozen men and no officer.