one o'clock
Finding that the resistance was becoming more and more obstinate , General Havelock sent off a horseman to Brigadier General Neil at Allahabad , begging him to send up three hundred more British troops with all speed . On receiving the message General Neil sent off two hundred and twenty-seven men of the Eighty-fourth Regiment in bullock vans , with orders to do twenty-five miles a day , which would take them to Cawnpore in less than five days . He himself came on with the reinforcements , Allahabad being by this time quiet and safe . At daybreak next morning the troops marched fourteen miles , halted , and cooked their food ; after which , at one o'clock , they prepared to attack the enemy , who were , our spies told us , in a position extremely strong in the front , but capable of being attacked by a flank movement . In the burning heat of the sun , with men falling out fainting at every step , the troops , under a heavy artillery fire of the enemy , turned off the road and swept round to execute the flank movement as calmly and regularly as if on parade . When they reached the points assigned to them for the attack they advanced ; and then , while the skirmishers and the artillery engaged the enemy , who were strongly posted in the inclosures of a village , the main body lay down . The enemy 's guns were , however , too strongly posted to be silenced , and the Seventy-eighth were ordered to take the position by assault .