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THREE:In a little time the Americans, recovering their spirits, returned to their guns, and plied them so well that they soon knocked the breastworks of sugar and treacle casks to pieces. As nothing[112] would tempt the Americans to show themselves from behind their cotton bales and embankments, after maintaining this murderous position for two whole nights and days, Pakenham drew back his men, sacrificing some of his guns, and formed a scheme of sending a detachment across the river to turn the batteries and then play them upon the enemy. But for this purpose it was necessary to cut a canal across the tongue of land on which the army stood, in order to bring up the boats required to carry the troops over the river. Major-General Lambert had arrived with reinforcements, so that against the American twenty thousand Pakenham had now about eight thousand men. All worked at the canal, and it was finished on the 6th of January. Colonel Thornton was to carry across the river one thousand four hundred men, and surprise the great flanking battery of eighteen or twenty guns, whilst Sir Edward Pakenham advanced against the lines in front. A rocket was to be thrown up by Pakenham when he commenced his assault, and Thornton was at that instant to make a rush on the battery and turn it on the enemy. But they had not sufficiently calculated on the treacherous soil through which they cut their canal. Thornton found it already so sludged up that he could only get boats through it sufficient to carry over three hundred and fifty men, and this with so much delay that, when Pakenham's rocket went up, he was still three miles from the battery��and that in broad daylight��which he ought already to have taken. Unaware of this, Pakenham advanced against the chain of forts and ramparts. He had ordered ladders and fascines to be in readiness for crossing the canal, but by some gross neglect it was found that they were not there, and thus the whole of the British troops were exposed to the deadly fire of the American batteries and musketry. No valour was of any use in such circumstances; but Sir Edward cheered on the few but brave-hearted troops till the ladders and fascines could arrive; but ere this happened, Pakenham was killed. Generals Gibbs and Keane took the place of the fallen commander, and still cheered on their men; but it was only to unavailing slaughter: the American marksmen, under cover, and with their rifles on rest, picked off the British soldiers at their pleasure. Gibbs was soon killed and Keane disabled by a wound. In such circumstances the troops gave way and retired, a strong reserve protecting the rear; but out of gun-shot there was no further danger, for the Americans were much too cunning to show their heads beyond the protection of their defences. Our Relations with Scinde��Occupation of the Country��Napier in Scinde��Ellenborough's Instructions��A New Treaty��Capture of Emaum-Ghur��The Treaty signed��Attack on the Residency��Battle of Meeanee��Defeat of Shere Mahommed��Subjugation of Scinde��Napier's Government of the Province��Position of the Sikhs��Disorders in Gwalior��Battle of Maharajpore��Settlement of Gwalior��Recall of Lord Ellenborough��Sir Henry Hardinge��Power of the Sikhs��Disorders on the Death of Runjeet Singh��The Sikhs cross the Sutlej��Battle of Moodkee��Battle of Ferozeshah��The Victory won��Battle of Aliwal��Battle of Sobraon��Terms of Peace��Administration of the Lawrences��Murder of Vans Agnew and Anderson��Renewal of the War��Battles of Chillianwallah and of Goojerat��Capture of Mooltan��Annexation of the Punjab.