Note 11 — STORM OF ALLIGHUR. 4th. September, 1803.
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“I think that General Lake’s capture of Allighur is one of the most extraordinary feats that I have heard of in this country. I never attacked a fort that I did not attempt the same thing, namely, to blow open the gates; but I never succeeded. I have always taken them by escalade, which appears to have been impossible in this instance.”—Wellington Dispatches.
This practice of blowing open the gates has since, on more than one occasion, been successfully practised in India.