Note 12 — HISTORICAL RECORD (continued 2)

‘A very spirited and successful attack was made on the other side of the stockade, by the advance companies of the Thirteenth and thirty-eighth regiments, under the command of Major Sale, who, by assisting each other up the face of the stockade, at least ten feet high, entered about the same time as the party by the breach, putting every man to death who opposed their entrance: and it affords me pleasure to state, that the first man who appeared on the top of the work was, I believe, Major Sale of His Majesty’s Thirteenth Light Infantry.’—Major-General Sir A. Campbell’s Despatch.