rtion of the great quadrangle;
whilst our troops, intermingled with theirs, kept possession of the
remainder, and firmly bivouacked upon it, exhausted by their
gallant efforts, greatly reduced in numbers, and suffering
extremely from thirst, yet animated by an indomitable spirit. In
this state of things the long night wore away.

"Near the middle of it, one of their heavy guns was advanced, and
played with deadly effect upon our troops. Lieutenant-General Sir
Henry Hardinge immediately formed her Majesty's 80th foot and the
1st European light infantry. They were led to the attack by their
commanding-officers, and animated in their exertions by
Lieutenant-Colonel Wood, (aide-de-camp to the Lieutenant-General,)
who was wounded in the outset. The 80th captured the gun, and the
enemy, dismayed by this counter-check, did not venture to press on
further. During the whole night, however, they continued to harass
our troops by a fire of artillery, wherever moonlight discovered
our position."[16]

The ghastly horrors of that awful night we should hopelessly struggle to
describe. The attack began about three o'clock in the afternoon, and was
urged incessantly for six hours in the face of the devastating storm of
the Sikh batteries, which, with one continuous roar of thunder, blurted
forth agony, and mutilation, and death upon their assailants. On the
bare cold earth--the night was bitterly, intensely cold--with no food
and no water--the living and the dying, in their exhaustion and torture,
lay with the dead in their tranquillity. Broadfoot, with a happier fate,
had already yielded up his spirit; Somerset, sensible, but helplessly
benumbed, was lingering through the tedious hours, to die in the
morning, knolled by the shouts of victory. All night long "the havoc did
not cease." In the very noon of darkness, a sleepless rest was invaded
and broken by such extraordinary efforts as those to which the
Governor-General in person excited the 80th and 1st European light
infantry. And it well merits remembrance, what we know from other
sources, that in these midnight charges, the men fell into the ranks so
noiselessly and swiftly, that they were ready to advance before their
officers were aware of their commands being generally understood.

"But with daylight of the 22d came retribution. Our infantry formed
line, supported on both flanks by horse