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2 though giving every credit to the bayonet as the
3 “never-failing weapon when the enemy made a
4 stand,” so that it is fair to conclude that the Native
5 infantry charged the guns equally with the Euro-
6 pean; and no invidious distinction should be
7 drawn, when the man best capable of forming a
8 correct judgment was satisfied with the conduct
9 ofall. The Sikhs are stated to have lost seventeen Guns lest by
10 guns at Moodkee, so that the remaining twenty-
11 three must have been brought back to their
12 entrenched camp at Feerozshuhur. As to the
13 actual loss of the enemy, it was not very great;
14 this arising entirely from the causes mentioned in
15 the despatch, namely, the nature of the ground and Causes which
16 the darkness of night, which prevented the full Tons of the
17 effect of the cavalry charges.
18 The 5th light cavalry under the command of
19 Major Alexander vied with the European dragoons,
20 while the body guard maintained its well-earned
21 name, and out of the few officers attached to
22 it, three were killed and wounded. The battle
23 appeared to have raged the thickest near the
24 Governor-general and Commander-in-chief, since,
25 almost every mounted officer attached to both, was Great loss
26 either killed or wounded, including the aides-de- Bridsh mount-
27 : ; ed officers,
28 camp with the Governor-general and one with the particularly
29 Commander-in-chief; while Major, now Lieutenant- cee oe
30 colonel, Patrick Grant, deputy adjutant-general, was fennander
31 very severely wounded, and Sir Robert Sale, the aoe
32 quarter-master-general, received a wound from
33 which he soon afterwards died. There could be no