 Seventeen Volunteers were able to severely disrupt the British advance, killing or wounding 240 men.Despite there being alternative routes across the canal nearby, General Lowe ordered repeated frontal assaults on the Mount Street position.The British eventually took the position, which had not been reinforced by the nearby rebel garrison at Boland's Mills, on Thursday, but the fighting there inflicted up to two-thirds of their casualties for the entire week for a cost of just four dead Volunteers.