1 72 FROM THE. DEATH OF NOO NEHAL SINGH
2 his never opening one upon us from the opposite
3 bank of the river, which is high and favourable
4 for the purpose :—fifty-two guns are now in the
5 Ordnance Park, two sank in the bed of the
6 Sutlege, and two were spiked on the opposite
7 bank—making a total of fifty-six pieces of cannon
8 captured or destroyed.* Many Jinjalls which
9 were attached to Avitabile’s Corps, and which
10 aided in the defence of the village of Bhoondee,
11 have also been taken. The whole army of the
12 enemy has been driven headlong over the diffi-
13 cult ford of a broad river; his camp, baggage,
14 stores of ammunition and of grain, his all in
15 fact, wrested from him by the repeated charges
16 of cavalry and infantry aided by the guns of
17 Alexander, Turton, Lane, Mill, Boileau, and of
18 the Shekawattee Brigade, and by the 8-inch
19 howitzers; our guns literally being constantly
20 ahead of everything. The determined bravery
21 of all was as conspicuous as noble. I am unwont
22 to praise when praise is not merited; and I here
23 most avowedly express my firm opinion and con-
24 viction, that no troops in any battle on record
25 ever behaved more nobly. British and native
26 no distinction, cavalry all vying with H. M.’s
27 16th Lancers and striving to head in the repeated
28 charges. Our guns and gunners, officers and
29 * Eleven guns since ascertained to be sunk in the river,—total
30 sixty-seven. Thirty odd jingalls fell into our hands.