Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1846-04-11

Three thousand three hsndred British and
netiue troops killed and ,Dountied--aus
,Portel Joss $4,000 Sikhs, at Mood
Zee and Ferozeshdk.
Our advices from bombay, since the
sailing Of the steamship Cambria; come
down to Jan. II, and furnish accounts Of
one of the greatest battles ever fought by
the British in our Indian empire, i'm which
We have sustained the known loss Of 1890
Of our brave soldiers, including the gallan,
Sale, Sir ]. M'Kaskill, and Major Broad
foot. When these ACCOUNTS left the scene
Of action for Bombay, for transmission to
England, there were several regiments
from which returns had not been received,
50 that further loss may be calculated
UPON An extraordinary Gazette gives an
official account Of all the military opera
ticns in this great struggle. The result,
we are proud TO say, is as glorious and
decisive q victory as ever crowned the
british arms, and equalled only by the
field of Waterloo. Previous to laying be-
fore our readers copies Of, the more i'm
portant dispatches, we prefix the following
brief outline:
9 On the 18th and 18th, and 18th of De-
cember, the Sikh army crossed the Sutlei.
with, at the lowest estimate, $4,000 men
(of whom 10000 or 3d. were cavalry,)
and about $50 pieces of cannon of the larg-
est calibre movable in the field, and ex-
auisitely finished artillery immea.ur-
ably more powerful than was ever brought
into the, field by Wellington or Napoleon.
1t is only; in morals that the Sikhs are to
be ranked as, barbarons. They are race
as vigorous in body, as accute in intellect,
and as skilful in al the arts they cultivate,
Of which war is the chief, as The genhraH-
ty Of Europeans. !, The place at which this
formidable hest passed the river may be
about 40 or 80 miles from Lahore, the
capital Of the Punjaub, and within much
less distance Of Ferozepore, the most ad-
svanced of the British posts. .a 4,
Ferozepore is about ID or 90 miles from
the point at which the Sikhs crossed the
river, if. it is 50 much. The invaders hav-
ing established themselves and organized
their force on the British side Of the Smlei,
made some slight demonstration OF attack
ing Ferozepore in the interval between
the 10Th and 18th; but, on the last named
day, broke up, and taking the direct. road
to Delhi, proceeded in southerly direc-
ton, as if they would mask .Fsfozepore,
leaving it on the right. In this direction a
division Of 81, 900 Of the invaders had pro-
ceeded about 20 miles, to place called
Moodkee, when. on the evening OF the
18th, they were met by part Of the Brit
ish army, commanded by Sir Hugh Cough
and the governor general, Sir Henry Har-
dinge, who,I as second in command, took
the field in person. A fierce conflict en-
sued, in which the Sikhs lost the artillery
attached to them division, in number II
ggns. It, was in this stage Of the battle
that Sir Robert. Sale and Gen. MUaskill
fell The cer,test proceeded languidly
throdgh the 18Th and 10Th, the armies on
both sides being occupied with the burial
Of their dead and the reorganization oil
their respective armies. During these two
Days the British command received sos,e
reinforcements; but the invaders having
fallen back upon their main body, proba,
bly, 10000 Or 40, 600, presented prodi-
giously augmented force, when the shock
Of battle was renewed on the: 2lst, at .
place called Ferozeshar, about II miles ir
retreat from Moodkee.. At Ferozeshal
the invaders had prepared strongly en-.
Itrerched camp, which they stood prepared
TO defend with. 100 pieces Of ti.eir hug,
field artillery and $4,000 men, Imagina
zion cantscarcely depict the fury and Ii,
obstinacyl Of the two days fight that mus
have preceded the capture Of the invaders
camp, with all lis naaierid and artillery
land the utter dispersion Or the invadin,
army on the pad December. The mos
Fortunate escaped4to islands in the Sutlej
or perhaps to thes Panjaub bank, but IN
greater part were scattered in broken par