1 126 HISTORY OF THE SIKHS.
2 mounted-on a black steed, and elicited by his noble
3 bearing the admiration of all. On the morning of
4 the 22nd he was borne to the rear mortally wounded,
5 “ while conducting himself with the hereditary
6 ~courage of his*race.”
7 Major Broad-
8 foot killed.
9 High eulo-
10 gium by Sir H.
11 Hardinge.
12 Captain
13 Nicholson
14 killed,
15 All the politi-
16 cal officers
17 either killed
18 or wounded.
19 Prince
20 Waldemar’s
21 surgeon killed.
22 Major Broadfoot, the political agent, also fell.
23 ‘He was first thrown from his horse by a shot, and
24 the Governor-general failed in his endeavours to
25 make him leave the field. ‘“ He was as brave as
26 he was able in every branch of the political and
27 military service.”+
28 Captain P. Nicholson was also doomed % fall at
29 Feerozshuhur on the 21st, where he received a
30 mortal wound through the chest, of which he died
31 before reaching Feerozpore, the scene of all his
32 active labours. . - ¥
33 With the exception of Gaptais Mills, who took
34 the command of a troop of horse artillery, all the
35 political agents were either killed or wounded in this
36 fierce struggle, shéwing by their death and example,
37 that though employed if diplomacy the daring
38 bravery of the British soldier had been in no wey
39 diminished.
40 Among those who shared in the dangers of this
41 battle, were Prince Waldemar of Prussia, and his
42 staff Counts Grueben and Oriolo, and Doctor
43 - Hoffmeister; the last officer was unfortunately
44 killed by a grape shot, or as one of the Prussian
45 gentlemen expressed it, “by a mouthful of grapes!”
46 Sir Henry Hardinge’s despatch. + Idem,