About two in the morning
His Sepoys toiled gallantly at the incomplete defences , while the rest fought hand to hand -- bayonet against knife , Metford against Enfield -- to cover their labour . He lost many men , but on the evening of the next day he had the satisfaction of seeing the fortifications complete , and he awaited a siege with equanimity , as he was well victualled . On the second night the enemy again attacked , but the moon was bright , and they were no match for his sharpshooters . About two in the morning they fell back , and for the next day it looked as if they proposed to invest the garrison . But by the third evening they began to melt away , taking with them such small plunder as they had won . Mackintosh , who was a man of enterprise , told off a detachment for pursuit , and cursed bitterly the fate which had broken his ankle with a rifle-bullet . In the south along the railway the warnings came in good time .