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convey to the whole of the cavalry brigade, and to
Captain Frith, in charge of the gallopers, the high
arose which he entertains of their important arr.
vines; although Captain Pierce and the Wiese arid-
lery were istravoidahly kept in reserve upon► this
occasion, the Brigadier-General takes the oppor-
tunity of expressing the obligations he is under to
this corps, and his admiration of their exempts's),
conduct throughout the present service.
The operations of yesterday were necessarily
confined to the cavalry, but the zeal and good cosi-
duct evinced by the whole of the troops during a
period of three months of incessant marching have
been eminently conspicuous, and- the Brigadier-
General regrets that it was impossible upon the
present oreasioo to afford them all an opportunity
of meettlig the runny.
H. Towr, D. A. Gen.
List of Casualties in the Cavalry Brigade, in the affair with
lie Enemy. February 20, 1818.
224 Dragoons--1 Lieutenant, 1 trumpeter, 13 rank and
Ale, wounded; 3 regimental hurses killed; 1 officer's
hone, 13 regimental horses, wounded; I officer's horse,
7 regimental bones,
Id Light Cavalry-1 trumpeter, 1 rank and file, wounded;
4 regimental horses wounded; 7 regimental !tweet' miss-
ing.
7th Light Cavalry-1 rank and file killed ; 2 rank and file
wounded; b regimental bones wounded; 7 regimental
horse. missing.
Total Killed mid Wounded-1 private, 3 regimental
horses, killed; 1 Lieutenant, 2 trumpeters, 18 pri-
li lof horse, 22 regimental hones, wound-
ed; 1 officer's horse, 21 regimental hoarser, missing.
OFFICER WOUNDED.
Lieutenant %Varrand, 224 Dragoons, slightly.
.1. COLEBROOK E._

Lietit -Col. Commanding Cavalry WO.
Copy of a Dispatch from Lientrnant.General Sir Thomas
Dislop, to the Governor General and Commander-iu-
Chief, dated Hesd•quartera, Army of the Deccan, Camp
at Maheidpaor (I), hominy 22, Isle.
MY Loari-1 have extraordinary satisfaction in
tranamitliug, for the information of your Lordship,
the official details of one of the most heroic ac-
tions (?) which has ever been fought and gained
by a handful of men over a large army.
The accompanying transcript of Brigadier-Ge-
neral Smith's dispatch, and of the General Order
which I yesterday published to the army un this
leilliatit occasion, will place your Lordship in full
possession of the particulars of the battle, in which
the ad battalion of the Ist regiment of Bombay
native infantry, aided by a small party of Madras
artillerymen, with two six-pounder', and about
three hundred auxiliary horse, have nobly sustain-
ed during a whole day, anal finally repulsed the un-
ceasing and vigorous efforts of the Prishwah's
army, under circtinistances of peculiar difficulty
and privation, which render the exploit altogether
I need not again, in this place, recapitulate the
names of the Officers who Lave aided the intrepid
Captain Staunton• in gaining the victory of Core-
gaunt ; their individual merits are brought to your
Lordship's notice iu the accompanying documenta,
and they will lie certain to receive from their Go-
vernment and their country that admiration of, and
gratitude fur, their devutad gallantry to which they
are CO highly entitled.
I most sincerely congratulate your Lordship on
an event which has, if possible, heightened the re.
nown of the Indian army, and from which I cannot
but anticipate results of the highest political import-
' once, since such a defeat must inevitably tend to
paralyze the future exertious of the enemy, and
prove to him the hopelessness of eolith o g a war,
with any success, against a power which has such
troops to oppose to him.
I have the honour to be, &e.
T. HISLOP, Lieatenant.General.
(Enclosed in the preceding.)
GENERA!. ORDERS, by the Commander in Chief.
Head Quarters of the Army of the Deccan, Cutup
near Malleidpuor, January 21, 1818.
It is with feelings of inexpressible gretitication
that the Commander in Chief has to announce one
of the most heroic and brilliant achievements ever
recorded io the annals of the arms, which took
place at the village of Caregaum, between Seroer
and Poona, on the Ist instant.
The official details of this glorious affair reached
the Comtnaistler w Chief yesterday, iii a dispatch
from Brigadier-G-neral L. Smith, C.B. comniand-
iiig the 4111 or Ptionals di vision of the army of the
Deccan, and his Excellency is pleased to publish
the Brigadier-General's Orders (3) issued on the
occasion, that the army may be placed in full pos-
session of every particular of an event displaying so
blight and distinguished au example of devoted
courage anal admirable constancy.
The Commander in Chief having published the
foregoing Orders, in the sentimeots of which lie
elitist cordially participates, Ira k unable to do
greater justice to the merits or c:,,,t„i„, Staunton,
and his gallant detachment ; but in conveying to
that Other and his brave troops the expression of
his thanks and highest admiration, his Excellency
clamant them to believe, that the distinguished in.
trepaty and enduring fortitude they have so nobly
Arena, under circumstances of the most tryiug
privation, will for ever reinaiii deeply impressed on
his heart, and be recorded as one of the brightest
deeds in the umiak of our Indian history.
It will be his Excellency's most gratifying duty
immediately to bring to the spec'sl notice of his
Excellency the Most Noble the Governor-General
and Commander-in-Chief in India, the particulars
of this brilliant and glorious event.
T. H. CONWAY, Adj -Gen. of the Army.
Return of Casualties in the Division under the command
of Brigadirr•Geueral Lionel Smith, C.B. from YU to the
89th January, 18111.
Came at Lorton, J y 91, 1818.
2J Madras Cavalry—l horse wounded; 1 bewilder, 1 rank
sail file, 3 Mimes, missing.
light Mitildiolllo rank and file wounded ; 1 rank and file
missing.
His Majesty's 85th Regiment-1 Ensign, 6 rank sad file,
1 ptieltally(4) wounded.
Ist 11411.141 Native Infantry-2 rank and file wonndcd.
Hasse Altillery—llmrse.ketiter,l hors., wounded.
orrictiot woum [OLD.
His Majesty's 63111 Regiatest—Ensign Newhouse, sligktly.
H. TOVEY, D.A.G.
N.B. the and the parties iu the ranks,
except two • by rockets.