1 Are led to the
2 right of the
3 entrenchment.
4 164 HISTORY OF THE SIKHS.
5 an admirable defence, for the slope was towards
6 them, while the Europeans on the high bank were
7 completely exposed. At length, the second divi-
8 sion, which at Feerozshuhur had driven the Sikhs
9 before them, capturing their guns at the point of
10 the bayonet and entering their encampment, were
11 The battle
12 rages on all
13 sides.
14 The Sikhs
15 fight sword
16 in hand.
17 led to the right of the entrenchment at Sobraon.
18 We cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of con-
19 tinuing the vivid and animated despatch of the
20 Commander-in-chief. ‘As these attacks of the
21 centre and right commenced, the fire of our heavy
22 guns had first to be directed to the right, and then
23 gradually to cease; but, at one time, the thunder of
24 full 120 pieces of ordnance reverberated inthe mighty
25 combat through the valley of the Sutlej; and, as it
26 was soon seen that the weight of the whole force
27 within the Sik camp was likely to be thrown on
28 the two brigades that had passed its trenches, it
29 became necessary to convert into close and serious
30 attacks the demonstration, with skirmishers and
31 artillery of the centre and right, and the battle
32 raged with inconceivable fury from right to left.
33 The Sikhs, even when at particular points their
34 entrenchments were mastered with the bayonet,
35 strove to regain them by the fiercest conflict sword
36 in hand. Nor was it until the cavalry of the left,
37 under Major-general Sir Joseph Thackwell, had
38 moved forward, and ridden through the openings
39 in the entrenchments, made by our sappers, in
40 single file, and reformed as they passed them; and
41 the 8rd dragoons, whom no obstacle usually held