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column had retired on the 16th would have been to acknowledge a defeat and play into the hands of the mullahs who were preaching the Holy War, and promising victory to the tribesmen. General Jeffreys therefore renewed the attack on the morning of the 18th. The whole brigade advanced upon the village, and this time the enemymade no attempt tohold it, withdrawing to the hill slopes beyond, from which they sent down a long-range rifle fire, while the Engineers were busy blowingup the fortified towers of the place. Driven back from the spurs on either side of the village by the Sikhs and Dogras, and shelled by the mountain In the dense darkness and on the broken ground it was impossible to secure complete cooperation between the different columns, and General Jeffreys, who had been wounded in the head by a bullet,but still kept in the saddle, found himself cut off from the rest of his force, andwith a mountain battery and a handful of men threw himself into a half-ruined village, which he held through the night against the tribesmen. The rest of the brigade regained the camp, sendingout at daybreak a column which brought back the general and his party from GENERAL SIR BINDON BLOOD, K C.B.

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the beleaguered village. The losses had been heavy. The adjutant of the 35th Sikhs, Lieutenant Hughes, had been killed. Three other British officers of the regiment had been wounded. Lieutenant A. T. Crawford, of the Artillery, was killed, and two other gunner officers wounded. Lieutenant Watson, of the Engineers, was badly wounded,and the general also was hit, but not badly hurt. The Buffs had two killed and nine wounded, the native troops thirty-four killed andninety-five wounded. The night in the camp hadbeen a time ofutter misery. The tents were down, the rain had made the ground a morass, and the men were exhausted with a long day's fight, during which their only food had been the coffee andbiscuit taken in the morning before the march out.

guns, they were kept at a respectful distance till the destruction of the village was completed. Then,coveredby theBuffs acting as a rearguard, the brigade retired to its camp without giving the enemy a chance to press home theirpursuit. The day had been acomplete success,with a loss of only two killed and six wounded on the side of the victors.

Next day the enemy sent in to ask for terms, and before the week was out the Mamunds of the valley that opened on Inayat Kila had submitted, though before their complete surrender there were two or three further skirmishes in order to clear out some of the villages whose inhabitants showed themselves morepersistently hostile than their neighbours.

Meanwhile the eastern section of the tribesmen, the Mohmunds under the personal leadership of the Mullah of Hadda, had made two night attacks on Sir Bindon Blood's camp at The stubborn resistance of the tribesmen had been quite unexpected. To leave them in possession of the village from which the right