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ment generally, for their ability and intelligence. To the
Quartermaster-General the service is much indebted, to the
judgment and zeal which mark all the proceedings of that
officer, and the Governor-General offers his acknowledg-
ments to him, to the Deputy Quartermaster-General, Lieut.-
Colonel Drummond, and the officers of that department.
To Lieutenant-Colonel Barr, Acting Adjutant-General,
and to Lieutenant-Colonel Gough, Acting Quartermaster-
General (Queen's service), the Governor-General's thanks are
due. He regrets the temporary deprivation of the services of
these officers by the wounds they have received.
To Lieutenant-Colonel Birch, Judge Advocate-General,
the Governor-General again has to repeat his thanks for his
intelligence and gallantry.
To Lieutenant-Colonel Havelock Persian interpreter, the
Governor-General offers his best thanks. _ _

The Governor-General—desires to record his obligations to
Count Ravensburgh and to the officers of his Royal High-
ness's staff, Count. Oriole and Count Greuben. This gallant
and amiable Prince, with his brave associates of the Prussian
army, has shared all the dangers, and secured for himself the
respect and admiration of the British army; and the Go-
vernor-General begs to convey to his Royal Highness and his
staff his cordial thanks for the ready offers of their services
on the field of battle.

The Governor-General has now to acknowledge the ser-
vices rendered by the officers attached to his own staff.

He retews to lieutenant-Colonel Benson, of the Military
Board, his strong sense of the important services rendered by
that officer during the whole of this campaign, whose general
information in military details and cool judgment in action
deserve this acknowledgment.
Lieutenant-Colonel Wood, the Governor-General's military
secretary, displayed on the 10th inst. the same intelligence
and gallantry as on former occasions.
Alskj..r Lawrence; the G.varnor-General's Political Agent,
has throughout these operations afforded most useful assist-
ance by his ability, zeal, and activity in the field, as well as
on every other occasion.
Captain Mills, Assistant Political Agent and Honorary
Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General, has shown the most
unwearied devotion to the services as well in the field as in
the exercise of his personal influence in the protected Seikh
states. 4

The Governor-General's thanks are also due to Captain
Cunningham, of the Engineers, Assistant Political Agent.

The Governor-Generil's Aides-de-Camp, Captain— Grant,
Lord Arthur Hay, Captain Peel, and Captain Hardinge, by
their gallantry and intelligence rendered themselves most

useful:.

In the operations:of this campaign, in which officers of the
civil service have accompanied the camp and participated in
the risks incidental to active warfare, the Governor-General's
thanks are due for their readiness in enceuntering these
risks and their endurance of privations. The Governor-
General acknowledges the able assistance he had at all times
received from the Political secretary, F. Currie, Esq. His
acknowledgments are also due to his private secretary, C.
Hardinge, Esq., and to the Assistant Political Agent, R.
Oust, Esq.
Lieutenant-Colonel Parsons, Deputy Commissary-General,
has succeeded in keeping the army well supplied, and the Go-
vernor-General is much satisfied with his exertions and

those of the officers under his command. The army took
the field under circumstances of great difficulty, and by stre-
nuous exertions and good arrangements on the part of the
Lieutenant-Colonel, the army has now a large supply in re-
serve, a result very creditable to the chief of the Commis-
sariat Department. The manner in which Captain Johnson
has conducted the Commissiariat duties entrusted to him
has also met with the Governor-General's approbation.
To Dr. Macleod, Superintending-Surgeon, and to Dr. Gra-
ham, as well as to the officers of the Medical Department
generally, the Governor-General offers his acknowledgments.
His thanks are due to Dr. Walker, Surgeon to the Go.
vernor•General, whose ability is only to be equalled by his
seal and humanity.
A salute of twelve guns will be fired in celebration of the
victory of Sobraon at all the usual stations of the army.
By order of the Right Hon. the Governor-General of India,
F. CURRIE, Secretary to the Government of India,
with the Governor• General.

THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF'S
DISPATCHES.
Head-Quarters, Army of the Sutlej,
Camp Kussoor, Feb. 13.
TO THE RIGHT HON. THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL
OF INDIA, &c.
Right Hon. Sir,—This is the fourth dispatch which I have
had the honour of addressing to you since the opening of the
campaign. Thanks to Almighty God, whose hand I desire
to acknowledge in all our successes, the occasion of my
writing now is to announce a fourth and most glorious and
decisive victory !
My last communication detailed the. movements of the
Seikhs and our counter-manoeuvres since the great dal, of
Ferozeshah. Defeated en the Upper Sutlej, the enemy con •
tinued to occupy his position on the rightbalenket abnadnk of
fo r-
inichtble Me de pont and entrenchments on the
the river in front of the ntain body of our army. But on the
10th instant, all that he held of British territory, IN Itich was
comprised in the ground on which one Of his camps stood,
was stormed from his grasp, and his audacity was again sig-
nally punished by a blow, sudden, heavy, and overwhelming.
It is my gr-itifying duty to detail the measures which have
led to this glorious result.
The enemy's works had been repeatedly reconnoitred dur-
ing the tune of my head-quarters being fixed at Nihalkee,
by myself,. by my departmental staff, and my engineer and
artillery officers. Our observations, coupled with the re-
ports of spies, convinced us that there had devolved on us
the arduous task of attacking, in a position covered with
formidable intrenchments, not fewer than 30,000 men, the
best of the Khalsa troops, with 70 pieces of cannon, united
by a 03od bridge to a reserve on the opposite bank, on
which the enemy had a considerable camp and some ar-
tillery, commanding and flanking his field works on our
side. Major-General Sir Harry Smith's division having
rejoined me on the evening of the Bth, and part of my
siege train having come up with me, I resolved, on the
morning of the 10th, to dispose our mortars and battering
guns on the alluvial land within good range of the enemy's
works. To enable us to do this, it was necessary first to
drive in the enemy's pickets at the post of observation
in front of Koodeewalla, and at the little Sobraon. It
was directed that this should be done during the night of the
9th, but the execution of this part of the plan was deferred
owing to misconceptions and casual circumstances until near
daybreak. The delay was of little importance, as the event
showed that the Seikhs had followed our example in oc •
copying the two posts in force by day only. Of both, there-
fore, possession was taken without opposition. The batter-
ing and disposed field artillery was then put in position in an
extended semicircle, embracing within its fire the works of
the Seikhs. It had intended that the cannonade should
have commenced at daybreak; but so heavy a mist hung
over the plain and river, that it became necessary to watt
until the rays of the sun had penetrated it and cleared the
atmosphere. Meanwhile, on the margin of the Sutlej on our
left, two brigades of Major-General Sir R. Dick's division, under
his personal command, stood ready to commence the assault,
against the enemy's extreme right. His 7th brigade, in
which was the 10th Foot, reinforced by the 53d Foot, ane,d.li
by Brigadier Stacey, was to head the attack, supported
at
200 yards distance by the 6th brigade under Brigadier
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