Inside the Jhansi Fort

Today the town is completely invested by the British cavalry. There is tremendous excitement and frenetic activity. Will the fort protect us? We are all geared to defend the fort. The task, though is formidable.

We feel safe inside the fort of Jhansi. It is a strong fort, built of excellent and most massive masonry and is difficult if not impossible to breach. Its granite walls varies in thickness from 16 to 20 feet with small openings in the parapet of the walls, for artillery fire.

At places it has five tiers of loopholes for musketry fire. Guns placed on the high towers of the fort commands the country all around. The fort is surrounded by a fortified and massive wall up to eight feet thick and up to thirty feet high. What will tomorrow bring?