Equivalent fread using ifstream [closed]

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I want to use ifstream to read n blocks of data like fread, is there a way to do implement similar functionality in C++ using ifstream?

I tried to load the TGA file, and its header looks like:

struct TgaHeader {
    char identSize;
    char colorMapType;
    char imageType;
    unsigned short colorMapStart;
    unsigned short colorMapLength;
    unsigned char colorMapBits;
    unsigned short xstart;
    unsigned short ystart;
    unsigned short width;
    unsigned short height;
    char bits;
    char descriptor;
};

Using fread to read a header:

TgaHeader tgaHeader;
fread( &tgaHeader, 18/* sizeof( TgaHeader )*/, 1, pFile );

Now I want to use it with ifstream, but there are no equivalent functions available. ifstream only offers read function which allows reading a pointer of n size. So how could I say reading n headers of x bytes using fstream?

Thank you,

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As the comments under the question say, you want basic_istream<>::read() and to use size * count instead of the two separate arguments of fread().