18G CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE AFGHANS. 



who, immediately after their charge upon a 

 large body of Afghan cavalry, whom they ut- 

 terly routed and drove from the field with the 

 loss of two standards, addressed their command- 

 ing officer in the highest terms of praise. The 

 Sindh Horse then took part in the pursuit and 

 captured several guns, and subsequently formed 

 part of the force under Sir Walter Gilbert, which 

 chased the enemy across the Indus, and fol- 

 lowed them up to Jumrood, where small parties 

 of the regiment had several encounters with 

 hill-plunderers. The conduct of the Sindh 

 Horse in this campaign was highly praised in 

 the official despatches. 



In 1850, a body of marauding horsemen car- 

 ried off a number of camels between Kundcote 

 and Tungwarree. Information was speedily 

 given to Jemadar Doorgah Singh, who com- 

 manded the frontier post, and that officer im- 

 mediately went in pursuit of the robbers, whom 

 he followed for more than sixty miles into the 

 hills, where they came upon a large body of 

 the enemy, when nearly all his own men, 

 whose horses had failed them, were far behind. 

 Doorgah Singh had only three Sowars with 

 him, and the enemy outnmnbercd them twenty 



