The Sikhs behaved splendidly

From The Great Mutiny by Christopher Hibbert. Page 135.

There was, in fact, only one casualty, a Sikh who was mortally wounded by a musket ball which fractured his skull and lodged in the back of his brain. The Judge 'got a nasty wound in the face by the recoil of his own gun'. But he went on fighting. So did the Sikh jemadar, a huge, good-natured man who laughingly commented, 'No harm done!' after every unsuccessful cannon-shot, and who was wounded in the hand while contemptuously hurling brickbats at the sepoys from the roof.

The Sikhs behaved splendidly, John Halls, the Civil Surgeon, wrote, answering the mutineers' offer of 500 rupees for every European they brought out with 'sarcastic remarks and musket bullets'. They both designed and carried out 'some of the most important measures for the safety of the garrison'; and not only enabled the enemy's mining-tools to be turned against them by their stealthy sallies at night but also procured some sheep to enliven the garrison's boring diet. Yet Halls confessed that, bravely as they and the rest of the garrison fought, he had never thought that they could possibly survive unless relief arrived within one or two days. Listening during the night to the mutineers' horrible shouts o f 'Maro! Maro! Kill! Kill!'' he waited apprehensively for the expected assault.