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It was now about 4 P.M. Our men had been in the saddle 

 since 3 A.M., and had suffered a good deal from the heat. 

 We had cut up a number of the enemy, and had taken all 

 their guns ; and as any attack on the mass of the rebel force 

 with our handful of cavalry must have been followed by some 

 loss, and could have been accompanied by no adequate 

 result, a halt was called, and the enemy went off, heading for 

 Sironj. Men and horses were in want of water, and, guided by 

 a fringe of date-trees at some distance to our left, we rode off 

 to a small stream and dismounted. Here Lieutenant Shaw, of 

 the 3d Cavalry, died of sunstroke. He was taken ill as we 

 lay by the water, and was dead in twenty minutes. He was 

 a man of a cheerful and kindly disposition, and was much re- 

 gretted by all his comrades. He was buried at Beowra, where 

 we rejoined the column, and from which place the captured 

 ordnance was sent to Mhow. At Beowra we also buried 

 several men of the 92d and 7lst, who had died of sunstroke 

 during the action. Our loss from the enemy was nil. 



From Beowra, Captain Hutchinson returned to Indore, and 

 after a halt of one day, the force marched on Nursinghur, and 

 thence on Bhairseeah, the object of the General being to drive 

 the enemy northward. From Sironj, Tantia, having obtained 

 a considerable accession to his force from the Mahomedan 

 population of the place, moved to Esaghur in the Gwalior 

 territory, where he took possession of ten guns. He then 

 divided his army ; one portion with four guns marching up 

 the left bank of the Betwa, and the other with six guns 

 crossing that river, and moving on Lullutpore. We were for- 

 tunate in falling in with both divisions. From Bhairseeah we 

 also marched to Sironj, and thence to the village of Mon- 

 growlee, thirty miles to the north-east, where we fell in with 

 the right division of Tantia's force. 



