1 124 HISTORY OF THE SIKHS.
2 wounded will amount to three thousand and up-
3 wards. The loss on the part of the Sikhs was com-
4 puted at four times that number, but it is impossi-
5 ble to arrive at any certainty on this point, since
6 many who had been missing, and were supposed
7 killed, afterwards found their way to their homes.
8 Number of The guns captured from the Sikhs at Feerozshu-
9 sins a hur, and placed in the entrenched camp at Feeroz-
10 pore, amounted to seventy-three, making with
11 those taken at Moodkee, a total of eighty-eight,
12 but several were thrown into wells by the Sikhs
13 themselves, and others though in the possession of
14 the British were not spiked. The loss of the
15 enemy in guns was, therefore, probably little short
16 of one hundred.
17 Sikh guns of An inspection of the guns captured from the
18 than the Sikhs, proved that they were heavier in metal than
19 ia those of a similar calibre with the Bengal army,
20 and “ the whole were well fitted for post guns.”*
21 Rpt Jt was found at Feerozshuhur, that the Sikh
22 cient arm of artillery was the only arm*which had any chance
23 against the British, deficient as the latter were in
24 this important implement of war.
25 Greatest loss, © At the battle of Feerozshuhur, the great loss
26 grape and sustained by the British arose from grape shot ;
27 though the Sikh musketry did, no doubt, great
28 mischief. The loss on the part af the Sikhs from
29 the British musketry, however, must have been
30 great, as the men fired without raising the musket
31 * Warner’s return of captured guns.