Green Mountain Freeman

were cavalry, and 150 pieces of cannon of the largest calibre moveable in the field, and exquisitely finished-an artillery immeasurably more powerful than was ever brought into the field by Wellington or Napoleon.

The place where this formidable host passed the river may be about 40 or 50 miles from Lahore, the capital of the Punjaub, and within a much less distance of Ferozepore, the most advanced of the British posts. Ferozpore is about 15 or 20 miles from the point at which the invaders crossed the river, if it is so much.

The invaders having established themselves and organized their force on the British side of the Sutlei, made some slight demonstration of attacking Ferozpore in the interval between the 15th and 18th; but, upon the last named day, broke up, and taking the direct road to Delhi, proceeded in a southerly direction as if they would mask Ferozepore having it on their right. In this direction a division of 30,000 of the invaders had proceeded about 25 miles to a place called Moodkee, when, on the evening of the 18th, they were met by a part of the British army commanded by Sir Hugh Gough and the Governor-General, Henry Hardinge, took the field in person.

A fierce conflict ensued, in which the Sikhs lost the artillery attached to their division, in number 17 guns. It was in this stage of the battle that Sir Robert Sale and Gen. McCaskill fell. The contest proceeded languidly on the 19th and 20th, the armies on both sides being occupied with the burial of their dead, and the reorganization of their armies.