Street fighting is always confusing, and hence the following vague description of the day's events from Captain Eyre Coote's journal: "Colonel Clive ordered the picquets, with the company's grenadiers, to march into the French bounds, which is encompassed with an old ditch, the entrance into it a gateway with embrasures on the top but no cannons, which the French evacuated on our people's advancing.

Then she played picquet or whist with some friendly priests.