Excerpt from The Rajpoot's Rings It had been a day Of desperate fighting. The attack had begun at dawn, had been continued all through the fierce heat of mid-day, and had lasted until far on in the afternoon. But there was no cover The Rajah's men were well armed and were good marksmen. And at length, when the sun, like a round shield of burnished copper, was low down in the west, the bugle had sounded the retire. The stormers, in falling back, had carried off their wounded; but the red - coated dead were still lying where they fell, some of them at the very foot of the wall, among the wrecks of broken scaling-ladders. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.