At Goojerat the victory was complete, and the Sikhs, recognizing the inevitable, acknowledged British rule. Heavy was the price we paid for the conquest of the Punjab, but the blood shed on the banks of the Sutlej was not shed in vain, for England has no more faithful subjects, no braver soldiers in her armies, than the Sikhs who stood so bravely before us in the campaigns of 1846-1849.

Casualties at the Battle of Goojerat.

Regiments.Officers.Men.
K.W.K.W.
3rd Hussars---1
9th Lancers----
14th Hussars12-4
10th Lincolns-1753
24th S. Wales Borderers----
29th Worcesters--26
32nd Cornwall L.I.-114
53rd Shropshire L.I.----
King's Royal R.---1
61st Gloucesters---9
Roy. Munster F.159135
Roy. Dublin F.----
35th Scinde H.-1211
36th Jacob's H.----
Q.O. Corps of Guides----
2nd Q.O. Light Infantry-511127
11th Rajputs-61038
103rd Light Inf.----
119th Multan----

[CHAPTER XIX]

BATTLE HONOURS FOR THE CRIMEAN WAR, 1854-55

Alma—Balaclava—Inkerman—Sevastopol.

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The perennial quarrel between Russia and Turkey entered on a new phase in the year 1854, when England and France, espousing the Ottoman cause, despatched their fleets into the Baltic and a combined naval and military expedition to the Crimea. The command of the British army was entrusted to General Lord Raglan—a veteran officer, who had served on the Duke of Wellington's Staff in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, where he lost an arm, and who for many years had held the important post of Military Secretary at the Horse Guards. He had never exercised the command of an independent body of troops, and his experience of war was not of recent date. The whole campaign was grievously mismanaged, but the chief blame rested with the authorities at the War Office, who neglected to provide the army with the thousand and one requisites for troops waging war in such a climate as a Crimean winter. It was retrieved by the bravery of our troops and their cheerful endurance of sufferings—sufferings that might have been avoided by the exercise of common forethought.