Administrative System of the Marathas c22.s1.6

c22.s1.6

"Our men at first marched up the hill with the greatest resolution, but large stones which the enemy rolled out of the breach, and on each side of it threw them so often down, and rolled them back again by twenties at a time. What with their endeavours to clamber up so steep a rock, and their being so often tumbled back by large stones rolled down upon them, our people were at last so fatigued, that they were obliged to give it up." Caraccioli, quoted by Sir G. W. Forrest, *The Life of Lord Clive*, Vol. II, p. 273.