STUBBS DIARY. 
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May 19th. —Eelieved about 1 o’clock to-day by Major Le Mesurier. 
Tombs, who commanded the artillery, told me I was to go on with my 
Heavy Battery to Mohamdi; Le Mesurier also with his. Camp shifted, 
but I could not move, having to supply a troop, a battery, and the 
details of heavy guns in the gaol and fort with ammunition and stores 
which they expect to-night. 
May 20th. —Yery busy arranging for my battery to move. Enemy 
busy entrenching at the fort over there. Fearfully hot. 
May 22nd. —Coke’s Brigade came in to-day—Lind’s Multani Horse, 
Hammond’s Battery (3rd Company 3rd Battalion), 1st Punjab Eifles, 
1st Sikh Infantry. 
Sunday, May 23rd. —Battery moved to Lodhipur, where we bivou¬ 
acked. 
May 24th. —Our force marched on Barnai a little before day-break. 
Enemy opened at about 1400 yards, but their shot fell short. Le 
Mesurier leading was first in action on my left. Lots of cavalry about, 
which we were ordered to hold in check. After a few rounds they took 
themselves off. In the pursuit Hammond had a wagon blown up. Two 
men and a driver killed. Encamped at Jafnapur. 
May 25th. —Marched at 3 o’clock. Coke’s Brigade in front line; 
Taylor’s in second; Heavies in rear. When we got close to Mohamdi, 
10 miles from last ground, the cavalry, with the three light batteries, 
went to the front and, for some time, kept up a fire on the enemy, 
who were posted in the topes. We were halted. Some of the rebel 
sowars charged Cureton’s cavalry, but got well pitched into. Beyond 
this, there was no opposition, and the rebels, as usual, disappeared. 
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Encamped a mile from Mohamdi. A number of cases of sunstroke in 
the infantry. 
May 26th. —Halted. The fort here dilapidated; the town a miser¬ 
able place : nothing to loot. Three guns got in a garden. 
May 27th. —Halted. Tombs and some cavalry went to a fort about 
four miles off. It was a very strong one, and had a bamboo hedge on 
the outside of the ditch all round. They blew up part of it and brought 
back a lot of guns. 
May 28th. —To Jafnapur. 
May 29th, —To Shahjahanpur. The town is re-peopled since we 
