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2 them before them and took some guns without a
3 — check.
4 “While these operations were going on upon the
5 right, and the enemy’s left flank was thus driven
6 back, I occasionally observed the brigade under
7 Brigadier Wheeler, an officer in whom I have
8 the greatest confidence, charging and carrying
9 guns and everything before it, again connecting
10 his line and moving on in a manner which ably
11 displayed the coolness of the brigadier and the
12 gallantry of his irresistible brigade—H. M.’s
13 50th Foot, the 48th N.I., and the Sirmoor Bat-
14 talion, although the loss was, I regret to say,
15 severe in the 50th. Upon the left Brigadier
16 Wilson, with H. M.’s 53rd and the 30th N. L.,
17 equalled in celerity and regularity their comrades
18 on the right, and this brigade was opposed to the
19 ‘Aieen’ troops, called Avitabiles, when the fight
20 was fiercely raging.
21 “The enemy, well driven back on his left and
22 centre, endeavoured to hold his right to cover the
23 passage of the river, and he strongly occupied
24 the village of Bhoondee. I directed a squadron
25 of the 16th Lancers, under Major Smith and Cap-
26 tain Pearson, to charge a body to the right of
27 the village, which they did in the most gallant
28 and determined style, bearing everything before
29 them, as a squadron under Captain Bere had ‘pre-
30 viously done, going right through a square. of