1 64 HISTORY OF THE SIKHS.
2 several regiments of cavalry attached to his force,
3 and both foot and horse artillery. Sirdar Tej Singh,
4 likewise, commanded the Hureekee brigade, etyual
5 in strength to that of Kussoor, and under him were
6 Generals Goolab Singh and Jemadar Kunnr. To
7 the Hurreekce force were attached five thousand
8 cavalry. ‘Thus the force at Te} Singh’s disposal
9 amounted to 24,000 infantry and at least 10,000
10 cavalry with a hundred guns. Runjoor Singh was
11 in command of an army of 10,000 men, moving on
12 Phuloor with upwards of sixty guns, and a portion
13 of cavalry. In addition to these three brigades
14 numbering upwards of 30,000 infantry, 15,000
15 cavalry and 160 guns, there was a force under
16 Shum Shere Singh amounting to 15,000 infantry,
17 7,000 cavalry and thirty guns, besides horse
18 artillery. Thus a Sikh force was marching on the
19 Sutlej of nearly 50,000 infantry, 25,000 cavalry
20 and 200 guns. On the 19th December, the main
21 body of the Sikh army, consisting of at least 35,000
22 infantry and upwards of>a hundred guns with
23 25,000 cavalry, was strongly entrenched at Feer-—
24 ozsbuhur, after allowing for its losses at Moodkee.
25 A portion from each branch of their service had
26 been sent to that place. During the 19th and 20th
27 of December, the Sikh troops who had fled from
28 Moodkee joined their head quarters, and awaited
29 the attack of the British, Had the Khulsa troops
30 encountered a less desperate resistance in their
31 first engagement, they would, in all likelihood, have
32 rallied on the following day, and made another