204 The Wiltshire Regiment for Wiltshire.” 
“The Sixty-Second did all that brave men could at Ferozeshah,” 
said the late Duke of Wellington. 
But there was much yet to be done against the Sikhs, and the 
morning of the 10th of February, 1846, found the remnant of the 
Sixty-Second at Sobraon, on the bank of the river Sutlej. There again 
the British army and their Indian allies were opposed to a murderous 
fire from behind strong entrenchments. Here is Sir H. Gough’s 
account of it: “The English left, two brigades commanded by Sir 
Robert Dick, rested on the river, opposite to the extreme right of the 
enemy. They consisted of the Tenth Foot, and Fifty-Third Foot (7th 
brigade) under Brigadier Stacey; and at two hundred yards’ distance, . 
the 6th brigade, under Brigadier Wilkinson. In reserve was the 
5th Brigade, under Brigadier Hon. T. Ashburnham, consisting of 
the Ninth Foot, Sixty-Second Foot, and Twenty-Sixth Bengal 
Native Infantry.” In the centre was Major-General Gilbert’s 
Division. Then more to the right Brigadier Campbell’s men, and 
still further Sir Harry Smith’s, protected by reserves, under the 
command of Major-General Sir Joseph Thackwell and Brigadier 
Scott. The battle opened with a spirited artillery fire, soon after 
6, am. But this was not enough; there must be the musket 
and the bayonet. Stacey’s Brigade charged about 9, a.m., and 
though shaken by the fire got in and drove the Sikhs before them. 
The Tenth greatly distinguished themselves, not firing till within 
the entrenchments. The Fifty-Third Foot, and the Forty-Third and 
Fifty-Ninth Native Infantry were also in good fighting trim. 
Ashburnham’s Brigade moved to support with the other troops at the 
instant this happened. “ As these attacks,’ says Sir H. Gough, 
“of the centre and right commenced the fire of our heavy guns had 
first to be directed to the right and then gradually to cease; but at 
one time the thunder of full one hundred and twenty pieces of 
ordnance reverberated in this mighty combat through the valley of 
the Sutlej; and as it was soon seen that the weight of the whole 
force (thirty thousand) within the Sikh camp was likely to be thrown 
upon the two brigades that had passed its trenches, it became 
necessary to convert into close and serious attacks the demonstrations — 
with skirmishers and artillery of the centre and right; and the 
