* Thomson wrote: ‘Thirty boat-loads of shot and shell that were lying in the canal fell into their hands, and the profusion of the material of war which they obtained from the cantonments (where one magazine alone contained 200,000 lbs of gunpowder, besides innumerable cartridges and percussion caps) furnished them with supplies amply sufficient for a campaign.’ (Thomson, The Story of Cawnpore, 42.)