Colonels Campbell's and Shelby's regiments commenced the attack, and kept up a galling fire on the enemy, while the right and left wings were advancing forward to surround them, which was done in about five minutes.
Some of the regiments suffered severely under the galling fire of the enemy, before they were in a proper position to engage in the action.
At this moment Captain Hardin led a small force of Whigs into the field, and, under cover of the fence, kept up a galling fire on the right flank of the Tories.
Accordingly the troops were quietly withdrawn, though submitted to a galling fire, having lost in the morning's work about eight hundred men.
This unfortunate confusion spread to the men of the Forty-third, who, checked by the disordered mass in front, and submitted to a galling fire, also commenced falling back.
The regiments of our Third brigade were forced from the rifle pits, leaving the Seventy-seventh regiment and a part of the Forty-third alone contending the ground, exposed to a galling fireon front, flank and rear.
The resistance made was but feeble, and under a galling fire of round and grape shot they once more retreated to the bridge over the Pandoo Nuddee, which was the last obstacle on the road to Cawnpore.
They were now almost surrounded, but, under a galling fire, they pushed on, yet losing severely.
From this point of vantage the enemy kept up a galling fire, and it soon became evident the battery would have to be stormed.
But a flanking party of Indians, which covered that wing of the enemy, and was concealed under some bushes upon the ancient river bank, kept up a galling fire.
The French kept up a galling fire, till the gathering tempest burst with great fury upon the belligerents.
HENRY advanced through the village on foot, cheering on his men amidst a galling fire of musketry, which the enemy poured on them from loop-holed walls.
At length, General Butterfield, in the face of a galling fire, succeeded in capturing the position.
Then, suddenly a galling fire plowed in on them from the left.
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