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2 chief eager and willing to remove the one and gra-
3 tify the other.
4 The Governor-general took immediate measures Measures
5 . . adopted for
6 for having all those who had lost limbs, or whose conveying the
7 wounds rendered them unfit for service, conveyed wountied Whe.
8 to Eurcpe as goon as they could be safely moved. te eR:
9 He visited the wounded again and again, and
10 watched over their welfare with a solicitude that
11 could not have been surpassed had his own chil-
12 dren been the objects of his attention.
13 Such details may be considered uninteresting to Beneficial
14 consequences
15 the general reader, but the discipline and efficiency of such kind-
16 of an army, its endurance under the severest depri- mess and
17 vations, its determined efforts to support the
18 honour of the Nation, are not to be fully attained
19 without a careful watch over the soldier's wants and
20 a generous attention to his sufferings: of this fact
21 the noble commanders at Feerozshah proved they
22 were fully sensible.
23 A battle so desperately contested on the part of The killedand
24 the Sikhs, must necessarily have been attended necessarily
25 with a great loss in killed and wounded. It is im- ~
26 possible to arrive at any thing like accuracy on
27 this point, as regards the enemy. Their artillery-
28 men stood manfully to their guns, and the greater
29 part of them must have fallen. The British lost British loss.
30 upwards of 2,000 in killed and wounded, including
31 thirty-seven officers among the former, and double
32 that number wounded, several of whom afterwards
33 died. Adding this loss to that sustained at Mood- Computed loss
34 kee on the 18th December, the total in killed and ees