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2 the cavalry. The Sikhs ceased their firing and ts driven of
3 abandoned the field.” Tene
4 Thus terminated the hard-contested fight of pee eae
5 Feerozshah, which, but for the indomitable bravery ane
6 of the British infantry, must have been gained by
7 the Sikhs.
8 The British, from the first, had no guns capable
9 of silencing those of the Sikhs; and even those
10 they did possess were rendered useless for want of
11 ammunition, a proof that they had done their duty
12 while means were at their disposal. We can never Galle bea
13 forget the look of disappointment so vividly de- British artil.
14 picted on the faces of the brave artillery-men when ee
15 they turned their horses’ heads from the field on
16 which they had so nobly acted their part. Dire
17 necessity compelled them to withdraw from a con-
18 test where they could no longer be of use, and this
19 at a moment when the British infantry had so
20 many thousand cavalry threatening their very ex-
21 istence. :
22 The British cavalry were driven back by Tej The British
23 Singh. The few regiments of regular and irregular sal ate
24 cavalry composing the former, though having before meee
25 them the daring and intrepid 3rd dragoons, were
26 appalled at the sight of the almost numberless
27 horses of Sikh Ghorchurras, and it was in vain to
28 attempt the charge. The British infantry, there- peterminca
29 and fierce
30 fore, formed into line with the cavalry on its flanks, charge of the
31 determined to drive the combined force of Tej ae anfan
32 Singh off the field. Already, as we have said, had
33 the cavalry been driven back, and the entire mass