1 Conclusion.
2 376 HISTORY OF THE SIKHS.
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4 infantry alone, were obliged to yield to the ‘latter.
5 Had thetwo forces changed sides, and the guns
6 and cavalry been on our part, the Sikh infantry ©
7 wotld have been annihilated, as they nearly were at
8 Sobraon ; for, as before stated, it was not artillery
9 opposed to artillery, nor cavalry to infantry, but a
10 body of European infantry fighting against all the
11 three arms: such was the battle of Feerozshuhur,
12 and such its glorious result under gallant leaders
13 and indomitable troops, maintaining the nanfe and”
14 valour of British soldiers against fearful odds.
15 It was not our original intention to have entered.
16 into the full particulars of the late engagements
17 with the Sikhs, but we found ourselves compelled
18 to give as much information as we could collect;
19 for it is not from general statements that the true
20 nature of battles is to be gleaned; and though
21 Waterloo was fought thirty years ago, it is only
22 of Jate that the researches of Captain Siborne
23 have enabled us to come to a true knowledge
24 of the particulars of that great battle. We are,
25 therefore, vastly obliged to Sir Harry Smith and
26 Sir Joseph Thackwell for the information politely
27 furnished by them regarding Feerozshuhur and
28 Sobraon; and should the present work ever see
29 a second edition, we have do doubt that time
30 will enable us to correct errors, and add many
31 more facts regarding the Sikh campaign of 1845
32 and 1846.