1 44 HISTORY OF THE SIKHS.
2 general and Commander-in-chief; and when it
3 was known, that a Sikh force was actually on the
4 left bank of the Sutlej, and the Governor-general no
5 Active mea- longer restricted in any measures he might think
6 sures adopted . A a 7
7 in forminga proper to adopt, Sir Henry lost no time in setting
8 British Arm f :
9 for the repul. the whole troops in the Upper Provinces in mo-
10 gion ofthe tion towards the frontier, while he and the Com-
11 mander-in-Chief proceeded with all expedition to
12 Kuna Ka Serai. An express was sent to Kussowlee
13 and Sobathoo to order down Her Majesty's 29th
14 regiment from the former place, and the Honour-
15 able Company’s Ist European light infantry from the
16 The hill rea: latter. At 9 p.m. on the 10th December, 1845, the
17 at the shortest order arrived at Subathoo, and at 10 a.m., next
18 morning, the European light infantry marched from
19 their cantonments to Kalka, a distance of nineteen
20 miles, while Her Majesty’s 29th marchéd the same
21 morning and reached Muneemajirah. The celerity
22 of the movements of these two regiments with so
23 short a warning, proved that the Governor-general
24 and Commander-in-chief might rest assured that
25 no delay would occur in their endeavours to reach
26 the place of rendezvous on the appointed day, the
27 13th; and had not a halt of one day occurred at
28 Muneemajirah, the hill regiments would have been
29 at Kuna in time to join the Commander-in-chief.
30 From Muneemajirah to Kuna both made forced
31 marches.
32 Fortunately, Lord Ellenborough the previous
33 Governor-general of India, had established a large
34 force at Umballa which could be thus available at