1 56 FROM THE DEATH OF NOO NEHAL SINGH
2 4th Lancers, the 9th Irregular Cavalry, under
3 Brigadier Mactier, with a light field battery, to
4 threaten their right. This manceuvre was also
5 successful. Had not the infantry and guns of
6 the enemy been screened by the jungle these
7 brilliant charges of the cavalry would have been
8 productive of greater effect.
9 “When the infantry advanced to the attack,
10 Brigadier Brooke rapidly pushed on his horse
11 artillery close to the jungle, and the cannonade
12 was resumed on both sides. The infantry, under
13 Major-Generals Sir Harry Smith, Gilbert, and
14 Sir John M‘Caskill, attacked in echellon of lines
15 the enemy’s infantry, almost invisible amongst
16 wood and the approaching darkness of night.
17 The opposition of the enemy was such as might
18 have been expected from troops who had every-
19 thing fat stake, and who had long vaunted of
20 being irresistible. Their ample and extended
21 line, from their great superiority of numbers, far
22 outflanked ours; but this was counteracted by
23 the flank movements of our cavalry. The attack
24 of the infantry now commenced ; and the roll of
25 fire from this powerful arm soon convinced the
26 Sikh army that they had met with a foe they
27 little expected ; and their whole force was driven
28 from position after position with great slaughter,
29 and the loss of 17 pieces of artillery, some of
30 them of heavy calibre; our infantry using that