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after advancing a few hundred meters 3rd company is driven back buy fresh indian troops. They retreat to their trenches as it gets dark. As colonel baggio sees that there are new reeinforcments arriving for the attackers and with scouts reporting a move of commonwealth troops tocut of his retreat lines he decides to use the cover of darkness to retreat back to keren. He hopes to escape before the cw units arrive in his back.