34 MAJOR W. HODSON. 



victors are now encamped, with no fewer than 

 100,000 fighting men, now 



* A broken and a routed host, 

 Their standards gone, their leaders lost.' 



So ends the tale of the mightiest army, and the 

 best organised, which India has seen. ... A cam- 

 paign is a wonderful clispeller of false notions and 

 young imaginations, and seems too stern a hint to 

 be soon foro-otten." ^ 



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1 The Sikh loss at Sobraon was reckoned at not less than 8000 

 killed and wounded, while Gough's army, about 17,000 strong, lost 

 320 officers and men killed and 2063 wounded. Gilbert's division 

 suflfered heavily, losing 6 officers, 5 sergeants, and 109 men slain ; 

 50 officers, 46 sei-geants, 2 trumpeters, 685 privates wounded. 



