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2 CHAPTER XI.
3 GENERAL REMARKS.
4 Tux chief features in the campaign which we chietseatures
5 have endeavoured to describe in the foregoing tin.” ;
6 chapters, were the suddenness of its commencement; °
7 the desperate resistance on the part of the Sikhs;
8 the fearful loss among the European officers and
9 soldiers; and the short duration of the operations
10 under which the capital of the Punjab was taken
11 possession of by British troops, and terms dictated
12 to a proud and overbearing people by the Governor-
13 general of India. But these were not the only
14 striking points. A new territory had been acquired;
15 the cis-Sutlej Sikh possessions confiscated; and the
16 far-famed valley of Cashmere bestowed on a vassal
17 of the government of Lahore as a reward for ser-
18 vices performed to that state; add to which, an
19 indemnity of a million and a half had been levied
20 on the Lahore government. Such were the objects
21 attained, but the moral effect of the victories over General effect
22 of the victories
23 the Sikhs was not confined to that nation alone, Sverine skhe