"After taking and defending the town, the British armies now laid siege to the strong fort of Bangalore on 7 March 1791. Over the next fortnight, the fort was constantly attacked. Describing the siege, Wilks states: Few sieges have ever been conducted under parallel circumstances; a place not only not invested, but regularly relieved by fresh troops; a besieging army not only not undisturbed by field operations, but incessantly threatened by the whole of the enemy’s force. No day or night elapsed without some new project for frustrating the operations of the siege; and during its continuance, the whole of the besieging army was accoutered, and the cavalry saddled, every night from sunset to sunrise."