"The Gorkhas displayed the most undaunted resolution, advancing to the very muzzles of the guns, and endeavouring to strike down their opponents over their bayonets.  Although repeatedly swept away by the discharge of grape from the two field-pieces which command the approach, they returned to attack with such obstinancy, and kept up so close a destructive fire upon them, that all by whom the guns were served were either killed or disabled…"  -Horace-Hayman Wilson, The History of British India from 1805 to 1835