Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c56.s17.7

v4.c56.s17.7

Then the British infantry stopped, and broke into columns of companies, through the intervals of which the whole body of their cavalry with their galloper guns pressed forward and drove the enemy back to the bank of the Jamunā, where large numbers of the fugitives perished in trying to cross the river. "The Flying Artillery was up, and the river appeared boiling by the fire of grape kept up on those of the enemy who had taken to the river. It was literally, for a time, a stream of blood." [Pester, 167.]