1 General
2 remarks.
3 372 HISTORY OF THE SIKHS.
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5 Singh commenced. The enemy’s second slfot fell
6 into the.50th column, and the regiment lost many .
7 men.”
8 Here ends Captain Lugard’s interesting account,
9 and as we surmised in a former chapter, the Ist
10 * division saw nothing of the 2nd, nor knew what the
11 “rest of the army had done,.or were doing,” though
12 the burning of the Sikh camp showed that the
13 army had been in it; and had Sir Harry Smith
14 fallen back on the right of the village, he would
15 have found the main army to the right and rear,
16 but the darkness of the night precluded his taking
17 this route; and yet it is strange that he did not
18 come in contact with the cavalry in rear of the
19 advanced columns; but it was only the bivouack
20 fires of the field hospital that could be seen after
21 leaving the field, and it is surprising that none of
22 the enemy's horse made a descent on the former,
23 which they might have easily done.
24 From this account, Sir Harry Smith left his
25 position with “apparent reluctance,” but still our |
26 opinion remains unaltered, that to the circumstance
27 of the 2nd division retaining its position, may be
28 safely attributed the check of the Sikh army.
29 It was, perhaps, fortunate that Sir Harry Smith
30 occupied the position he did during the night of
31 the 21st, had it only been to collect the parties from
32 the various regiments which strayed around him,
33 though, it is probable, that these would have found
34 their way to Missreewallah, where the numerous
35 fires would have directed their steps. His position
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