1 HISTORY OF THE SIKHS. 167
2 jeants, and 173 rank and file. Her Majesty's 31st,
3 a regiment which had fought nobly at Moodkee,
4 Feerozshuhur and Alleewal, had 7 officers and
5 147 rank and file, killed and wounded at Sobraon.
6 Her Majesty's two regiments who led the attack
7 on the right-of the enemy’s entrenchment, sus-
8 tained a less severe loss than the European regi-
9 ments of the Ist and 2nd divisions. The list of
10 killed and wounded in Her Majesty’s 10th foot,
11 comprchends, 3 officers, 3 serjeants, and 127 rank
12 and file; and Her Majesty’s 53rd foot, 9 officers,
13 I serjeant, and 111 rank and file; while Her
14 Majesty’s 50th, or Queen’s own, had 12 officers,
15 and 227 rank and file killed and wounded. Her
16 Majesty’s 9th, and 80th, suffered little, as com-
17 pared with their loss at Feerozshuhur; and the
18 same is true of Her Majesty’s 62nd, The loss in -
19 staff and mounted officers at Sobraon, was also
20 trifling, as compared with that at Feerozshuhur
21 and Moodkee. The gallant Sir Robert Dick fell Sata
22 in the attack on the éntrenched camp; he had wounded.
23 been present in many a hard fight, and the brave
24 veteran was heard to say, “the bullet is not
25 moulded that will kill Bob Dick.” In the Penin-
26 sular war, Sir Thomas Picton had frequently
27 escaped in a most miraculous manner, but at
28 length fell by a cannon shot, on the glorious field
29 of Waterloo; and Sir Robert Dick, who in the
30 same campaign “ bore a charmed life,” was doomed
31 to the death of a soldier, on the banks of the Sut-
32 lej. Ife died, as he had lived, a brave and gallant