Cavalry.

1st Brigade-3 European officers, 2 native officers, 83 men, 120 horses, killed; 6 European officers, 1 native officer, 100 men, 32 horses, wounded; 1 man, 73 horses, missing.

2nd Brigade-11 men, 25 horses, killed; 2 European officers, 3 native officers, 34 men, 38 horses, wounded; 12 horses missing.

Infantry.

1st Brigade 2 men killed; 2 European officers, 28 men, wounded; 7 men missing.

2nd Brigade-1 European officer, 1 native officer, 27 men, 2 horses, killed; 14 European officers, 2 native officers, 134 men, wounded; 4 men missing.

3rd Brigade 7 men killed; 32 men wounded; 3 men missing. 4th Brigade-9 men killed; 1 European officer, 26 men, wounded; 1 man missing.

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Return of Ordnance captured from the Enemy, in action at Aliwal, by the 1st Division of the Army of the Sutlej, under the personal Command of Major-General Sir Harry Smith, K.C.B. on the 28th January, 1846.

Camp, Aliwal, January 30, 1846.

Serviceable-12 howitzers, 4 mortars, 33 guns; total, 49; Unserviceable 1 howitzer, 2 guns; total, 3; sunk in the Sutlej, and spiked on the opposite shore-13 guns; since brought in-2 guns. Grand total, 67.

Forty swivel camel guns also captured, which have been destroyed. G. LAWRENSON, Major, 2nd Brigade Horse Artillery,

Commanding Artillery 1st Division Army of the Sutlej.

N.B. The quantity of ammunition captured with the artillery, and found in the camp of the enemy, is beyond accurate calculation, consisting of shot, shell, grape, and small arm ammunition of every description and for every calibre. The powder found in the limbers and waggons of the guns and in the magazines of the entrenched camp has been destroyed to prevent accidents. Six large hackery loads have also been appropriated to the destruction of forts in the neighbourhood. As many of the shot and shell as time would admit of being collected, have been brought into the Parkthe shells, being useless, have been thrown into the river. The shot will be appropriated to the public service.

G. LAWRENSON, Major 2nd Brigade Horse Artillery,

Commanding Artillery, 1st Division, Army of the Sutlej.

Copy of a Pencil Express, written on the Field of Battle by Sir Harry Smith to the Commander-in-Chief.

Bank of the Sutlej, March 28th.

Hearing the enemy had received a reinforcement yesterday of twelve guns and 4,000 men last night, I moved my troops at daylight this morning to attack. I think I have taken every gun he had, and driven him over the river. My guns are now battering him from the opposite bank. He came out to fight me. I expect fifty guns are on the field at least. My loss I hope not great. The Cavalry charged several times, both black and white like soldiers, and infantry,—vied with each other in bravery. To the God of Victory we are all indebted. God bless you, dear Sir Hugh. My Staff all rightMackeson and Cunningham, of the Political Department bore heavily on some villages. The enemy required all I could do with such brave fellows to teach him to swim.

(Signed) H. G. SMITH, Major-General.

NOTE. It will be observed, that the publication of the despatch from Sir John Littler, at page 51, did not proceed from the Commander-in-Chief's Office, it not having been countersigned by either the Military Secretary or the AdjutantGeneral.

M

SOBRAON.

The Governor-General of India to the Secret Committee.

Camp, Kenha Cuchwa, Feb. 19, 1846.

The immediate result of the victory of Aliwal was the evacuation by the Sikh garrisons of all the forts, hitherto occupied by detachments of Lahore soldiers, on this side of the River Sutlej, and the submission of the whole of the territory on the left bank of that river to the British Government.

The Sikh army remained in its entrenched position; and, though on the first intelligence of the victory of Aliwal, and at the sight of the numerous bodies which floated from the neighbourhood of that battle-field to the bridge of boats at Sobraon, they seemed much shaken and disheartened, and though many were reported to have left them and gone to their homes, yet after a few days, the Sikh troops seemed as confident as ever of being able to defy us in their entrenched position, and to prevent our passage on the River.

The Commander-in-Chief was not in a state to take advantage of the enemy's defeat at Aliwal, by an attack on his entrenched position, at Sobraon, until the troops under Major-General Sir H. Smith should have rejoined his Excellency's camp, and the siege train and ammunition should have arrived from Delhi. The first portion of the siege train, with the reserve ammunition for 100 field guns, reached the Commander-in-Chief's camp, on the 7th and 8th instant. On the latter day, the Brigades which had been detached from the main army for the operations in the neighbourhood of Loodiana, rejoined the Commander-in-Chief. Within forty-eight hours from that time, the enemy's entrenched camp was carried by storm, his army almost annihilated, sixty-seven guns captured, and during the night of the 10th, on which this glorious victory was achieved, the advanced brigades of the British Army were thrown across the Sutlej. Early on the 12th our bridge was completed, and on the 13th the Commander-in-Chief, with the whole force, excepting the heavy train, and the division left to collect and bring in the wounded to Ferozepore, with the captured

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