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In order to deceive the enemy as to his strength , Grant put on a colonel 's badge and uniform and , in his communications with the enemy , spoke and behaved as if he had the whole regiment under his command in the village . The enemy were undoubtedly misled , and wasted three days in negotiations . `` Then fighting recommenced and , at daybreak , the enemy made a determined attack upon the advance , with artillery . By eight o'clock they had pushed the attack home , and passed the line of walls and hedges a hundred yards from our position . The situation was growing serious when , leaving me in command , Grant went out with ten Ghoorkhas , crept along unobserved to the end of one of the walls and , turning this , made a sudden attack upon the enemy from behind . Taken wholly by surprise they fled , leaving six or seven dead behind them . `` At eleven o'clock they were again pressing hotly and , encouraged by the success of his first sortie , Grant determined to make another .