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Title: Lumsden of the Guides, a sketch of the life of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden, with selections from his correspondence and occasional papers
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Lumsden, Peter Stark, (Sir) 1829-1918 Elsmie, George Robert, 1838-1909
Subjects: Lumsden (Sir) Harry Burnett, 1821-1896
Publisher: London J. Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Eanjit Singh having died, the Sikhs,freed from his iron hand, refused to be controlled byhis feeble successors, and determined to measure theirstrength with the British and native soldiers of theEast India Company. They accordingly advancedtowards the British frontier, and crossed the Sutlejin December, 1845, with an army of 60,000 menand 150 guns. On the 18th December the battle ofMudki was fought, the Sikhs being defeated withheavy loss. Three days afterwards followed theclosely-contested fight of Ferozshahr. On the 22ndJanuary the Sikhs were again defeated at Aliwal,and finally, on the 10th February, the campaign wasbrought to an end by the capture and total defeatof the enemy at Sobraon. Of this last great battlewe have a stirring account in a letter from HarryLumsden to his father. Camp Lahore, 26th February, 1846. Now for the battle of Sobraon, which you will be able tounderstand by looking at the accompanying sketch of ourposition. The whole army moved out on the morning of the
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1846 BATTLE OF SOBRAON 15 10th February with as little noise as possible, and took upour places in the line of attack before sunrise, with the ex-ception of General Dicks division, which was taken up towithin two thousand yards of the right face of the enemysentrenched position, and kept under cover of a dry nullah *in readiness to storm as soon as our guns had silenced theenemys fire. Exactly at seven oclock in the morning theSeikhs were saluted by a salvo from our heavy gun batteries,near the tower in front of Ehodawalla, which they instantlyreturned, with interest, from every battery along their front.The cannonade thus commenced was carried on with thegreatest spirit on both sides for upwards of three hours, theenemy serving their guns with wonderful rapidity and pre-cision, knocking our Horse Artillery (which had gone out tothe front very boldly, and given them several rounds of grape)back to the line in no time. In about half an hour more the Commander-in-Chief, seeingthat our H

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