1 103 HISTORY OF THE SIKHS.
2 As acontrast to the killed of the 62nd, let us
3 see what the list of the other five Native regiments
4 exhibited. We find the number of casualties
5 The great 1088 scarcely amounted to half that of the 62nd in rank
6 omeers attests and file; while not asingle European officer belong-
7 ing to the five regiments was killed ; and the whole
8 number of their wounded European officers, little
9 more than equalled that of the 62nd regiment
10 alone. We do not, for an instant, wish to draw
11 any invidious comparison between the European
12 officers of the Native army, and those of Her
13 Majesty’s service; but we may rely upon it, that
14 The list of the list of killed and wounded among these, is a
15 killed and ; : A
16 wounded, a good proof that they and their men were in a posi-
17 eehedsngee. tion of danger, and that both suffered equally.
18 encountered. ‘The fact, as regards Feerozshah, cannot be con-
19 cealed. The Native infantry were not equal te
20 the work. If it were otherwise, how came it that
21 the capturing of the guns became the work of the
22 European infantry and European cavalry? How
23 did it happen, that long eré the European infantry
24 found themselves in the entrenched camp, the
25 Native regiments connecting them with one
26 another had disappeared? They did not, perhaps,
27 third of its officers fell. 1 cannot question the report of the operations
28 made by a commanding officer ; but I wish this official, when he sat down to
29 write an elaborate report of the conduct of the troops under his command,
30 had referred to the list of killed and wounded ; and ifhe had enquired into
31 the loss sustained by that regiment, I believe he would have found that
32 they were absolutely mowed down by the fire under which they were
33 advancing.”=—Duke of Wellington’s speech in the House of Lords, 26th Feb,
34 1846,