1 48 HISTORY OF THE SIKHS.
2 Almost every officer attached to the Governor-
3 general as aide-de-camp was either killed or
4 wounded. Many officers were shot by those Sikhs
5 who concealed themselves among the trees and
6 jungles for this purpose, after the main-body had
7 fled, and the officers thus slain were returning to
8 their camp. In this way Captain Jasper Trower
9 of the artillery received his death; his farrier ser-
10 jeant shared the same fate, while attempting to
11 avenge the death of his captain.
12 ten ha The 3rd dragoons pursued the Sikhs, but the
13 Dragoons’ nature of the ground rendered the gallant charge
14 gallant <lMFES. OF this distinguished regiment less effectual than it
15 otherwise would have been. The swords of the
16 dragoons penetrated with difficulty the quilted
17 clothes of the Sikhs, yet they slew many and
18 nothing could resist their impetuous career. It
19 was the first time the Sikhs had encountered
20 European dragoons and infantry, and the noble
21 and gallant bearing of both served to confirm the
22 character they had always borne. The Khulsa
23 troops could compare them to nothing else but
24 Demons.
25 Astonishmene Every one was astonished at the precision and
26 ore ee tiine Celerity of firing on the part of the Sikhs; but had
27 the discipline
28 and bravery Of they considered, that these troops were taught the
29 art of war under the instruction of such men as
30 Allard, Ventura, Court, and Avatabili, and that no
31 expense or pains had been spared by Runjeet Singh
32 to have an army disciplined according to Kuropean
33 tactics, it could never have been reasonably anti-