The Sikhs and the Sikh Wars: The Rise, Conquest and Annexation of the Punjab State - Hardcover

Gough, Charles

9788174790682: The Sikhs and the Sikh Wars: The Rise, Conquest and Annexation of the Punjab State

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ISBN 10: 8174790683 ISBN 13: 9788174790682

Publisher: Kaveri Books, 2012

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1897. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. CHILLIANWALLA: DEO. 4-JAN. 13, 1849 After Sadulapore--Advance by Dinghi--Composition of army--Chillianwalla occupied--Action forced by the Sikhs--Order of battle--On the left: Movement of guns on the left--Robertson--Mowatt-- Campbell's Division: he takes the left brigade--Pennycuick's Brigade --Campbell leads Hoggan's Brigade--Supported by Mowatt-- Successful advance--His losses--White's Cavalry Brigade--Losses-- On the right: Pope's Cavalry Brigade--Disastrous movement-- Gilbert's Division--Godby's and Mountain's Brigades--Joined by Campbell--Penny's Brigade--Rout of Sikhs--Lane's detachment-- Losses of Gilbert's Division. A Degree of uncertainty appears to attach to the grounds for Lord Gough's forward movement. For a month after Sadulapore he had remained in the same neighbourhood, at Heylah, resolved not to give battle to Shere Singh till the arrival of Whish's reinforcements should give him the strength to make the fight conclusive. The policy of delay was emphatically Lord Gough's own, and was of a piece with the principle which he had throughout maintained of concentrating the whole available force for one crushing blow. Lord Dalhousie appears to have given the Chief instructions in the same sense; but so far his interference in a purely military question was of little consequence, since Lord Gough's view of what ought to be done coincided with his own. But during December the Governor-General's ideas appear to have changed, and before Christmas he had written to Lord Gough expressing his desire that Lord Gough should attack if he thought it safe to do so. Whether Lord Dalhousie himself ever went further in the way of pressing an immediate advance is not certain, owing to apparent breaks in the correspondence. But Major Mackeson, the...

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