1 HISTORY OF THE SiIKHS. 65
2 attack, which was anticipated by the British Com-
3 mander-in-chief. But Tej Singh considered that
4 a detached force without the assistance of an over-
5 whelming artillery was certain destruction, and he Tactics of Tej
6 resolved to await the advance of the British in his S"8"
7 entrenched camp, and thus preserve his whole force
8 entire. His scouts had informed him, that the
9 only arm in which he could trust against the enemy
10 was his artillery, and that even his guns were not
11 safe, since the British at Moodkee had resorted to
12 the desperate plan employed at Maharajpoor of
13 seizing them at the point of the bayonet. The
14 Sirdar, though well aware of this fact, conceived
15 that such desperate courage only belonged to the
16 European portion of the British army, and from
17 the smallness of their number, imagined, that with
18 upwards of one hundred guns, he could defy their
19 efforts, In short, he came to the conclusion, that Is confident of
20 his position was safe, and victory on the part of
21 the British next to impossible. The Sirdar knew
22 well, that the guns of‘a large calibre possessed by
23 the enemy were few in number, and could never
24 silence his own, many of which were of battering
25 calibre. Jet us now see what force the British
26 Commander-in-chief had to oppose to his large
27 army. The only accession he had received to his
28 strength since the battle of Moodkee consisted of
29 Her Majesty’s 29th foot, the Honorable Company’s
30 ist European light infantry, the 11th and 41st
31 regiments of Native infantry and the heavy guns
32 brought up by Colonel Dennis.