1 104 HISTORY OF THE SIKHS.
2 mine formed in the rear of the guns, which blew up
3 and did great mischief among the advancing troops :
4 Explosion of Very thing was blown into the air, and for a time
5 the great ~~ nothing but confusion ensued. Several smaller
6 Smaller ones Mines exploded, and the noise occasioned by them
7 a. resembled an interrupted discharge of thunder-
8 clouds, while the whole atmosphere over them was
9 filled by a vast cloud of smoke, supported on a
10 “hurky flame, throwing its lurid glare far and wide.
11 sir H. Smith Six Harry Smith entered the village of Feerozshah,
12 ote and cleared it. He then proceeded further into
13 pied ie Shea the entrenched camp, and halted in consequence
14 the night, and } ; “ . * 7
15 pine of night coming on. In spite of the indomitable
16 tain a portion bravery of the British, a portion only of the Sikh
17 trenchment. entrenchment was carried. Night fell, but still the
18 battle raged.”* General Gilbert took the 29th,
19 80th, and Ist European light infantry some dis-
20 tance to the right and rear of the village, and there
21 Position of the halted. Thus, on the setting-in of the night of the
22 noniile night’ 21st December, were the European infantry regi-
23 ofthe 2is- ments placed in the enemy’s camp, having cap-
24 tured a portion of it, while the Sikhs occupied the
25 Harassing Test; their cavalry and infantry moving about
26 ord anette throughout the whole night, harassing and firing on
27 ria ‘the British who were bivouacked. A large Sikh
28 Guns and, gun was brought up close to the British, and its
29 enthem. contents discharged; but so near that the grape
30 could not spread itself, and the men and officers
31 thus escaped, while the chargers of the latter were
32 * The Commander-in-chief’s despatch.