text:  "Ensign Warren of the 5th native infantry at this time occupied the commissariat fort with 100 men and having reported that he was very hard pressed by the enemy and in danger of being completely cut off the General either forgetful or unaware at the moment of the important fact that upon the possession of this fort we were entirely dependent for provisions and anxious only to save the lives of men whom he believed to be in imminent peril hastily gave directions that a party under the command of Captain Swayne of H