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3 to flight on the 21st, the 2nd division would,
4 doubtless, have received its full meed of praise.
5 On referring to an officer of the 2nd division,
6 who got mixed up with the lst, regarding the
7 position of Six Harry Smith and Her Majesty's
8 50th, during the night of the 21st, he states,
9 “ T should say it was between 1 and 3 a.m. on the
10 22nd, that he (Sir H. Smith) moved out of the
11 entrenched camp, having been under a desperate
12 fire all night up to that time, and quite separated
13 from the rest of the army. He was in the very
14 centre of the enemy and pitched into on all sides.”
15 This statement coming from one in no way con-
16 nected with the Ist division, further than that he
17 was accidentally mixed up with it, is conclusive as
18 to the point at issue.
19 All that the second division contended for, seems
20 to be their priority in entering the entrenchment,
21 and this, considering it was the attacking division,
22 and met with no check in capturing the Sikh guns,
23 was naturally to be expected ; and if the first divi-
24 sion claim the honour of first entering the en-
25 trenchment, the mistake could only have arisen
26 from its not seeing the second division, which had
27 previously established itself in the entrenchment.
28 It may be asked, what would have been the
29 effect had Gilbert’s division been withdrawn during
30 the night? The question is easy of solution. The
31 Sikhs would have regained their original position,
32 and the most disastrous consequences would have
33 Saige ae. “As Stink: anctena wih ‘Ines eek. Sk.