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3 gadier Scott had received an order from the Go-
4 verhor-general to move to the right, and support
5 the 2nd division of infantry. The general then sir Joseph
6 . : Phackwell
7 placed himself at the head of two squadrons of the neces himself
8 3rd light drageons, followed by the 4th and 5th ae aaaniccs
9 light cavalry, and the remainder of the 3rd light ieee i
10 dragoons ; the 8th and 9th irregulars being left in
11 support of the 3rd division. On moving in front
12 of, and to the right of the watchtower, the batta-
13 lion on the right and within the entrenchments
14 was observed by the general to be making no pro~
15 gress, and the Sirmoor battalion on the left of the
16 2nd division, checked and eventually losing ground:
17 the latter circumstance was pointed out to him by
18 Captain Tucker, of the adjutant-general’s depart-
19 ment; and the general spoke to the Governor-general
20 on the subject. On this, Sir Joseph Thackwell
21 trotted down to the ditch of the entrenchment, and
22 along the glacis, but could not discover a place to
23 cross the ditch. He halted the two squadrons of
24 the 3rd, and galloped ‘on to where, just in rear of
25 the battalion on the right, he discovered a band piscovers a
26 across the ditch, passable in single file, with no ditch Bikh entrench:
27 within the rampart. This was within sixty yards ™"™*
28 of the Sikh right, and 150 of a flanking battery of
29 three guns, the grape from which was-too elevated
30 to do much damage. Sir Joseph brought the 3rd
31 light dragoons forward, and the Sirmoor battalion
32 passed among the horses into the trenches. He The dragoons
33 enter in single
34 led the 8rd in single file into the entrenchment. but 270 "2"