Abundance of Sikh ammunition and stores for carrying on the war, found in the works, were collected by our artillery and destroyed. To a late hour of the night of the 10th of February the explosion of these magazines caused the earth to tremble as with an earthquake, and sounded like the expiring echo of the thunders which had rolled in deafening peals throughout the morning.
Immediately the enemy had finally disappeared, parties were detached from each regiment to bury their dead, and the British army returned to the quarters which they had quitted on that memorable morning. The 10th of February brought no rest to our gallant chief, who hastened, after the enemy's defeat, to Ferozepore, to direct the passage of the Sutlej by Sir John Grey's division on that very night, when, it was natural to suppose, there was little likelihood of the Sikh army taking any measures to oppose our progress. The pontoon train, under the direction of our engineers, was in readiness for this important movement, and the advanced guard of the army crossed without any accident on the bridge, which was finally completed within two days for the transit of the whole army.
The wounded on the British side had been better provided for than on any former occasion, although the number of soldiers who had been struck down caused a scarcity of conveyances. All were as speedily as possible removed into Ferozepore, where the whole cantonment had been converted into a hospital, and every attention was bestowed which medical aid could afford or humanity suggest.
On the day following the action, many Sikhs came across, unarmed, in search of their deceased comrades, and no interruption being offered to them in the discharge of these sacred duties, in a short time small fires were seen to arise on various parts of the field of battle, and many of the fallen warriors were consigned to the flames.
Two days after the battle, the strange sight was witnessed of British and Sikhs, Hindoos and Mussulmen, wandering indiscriminately over the field where all had so recently been engaged in mortal contest.
Return of Killed, Wounded, and Missing, of the Army of the Sutlej, under the command of his Excellency Sir Hugh Gough, Bart., G.C.B., in the action of Sobraon, Feb. 10th, 1846.
| KILLED. | WOUNDED. | ||||||||||
| Officers. | N. C. officers. | Rank & File. | Officers. | N. C. officers. | Rank & File. | Missing. | |||||
| General Staff | 2 | ||||||||||
| Artillery | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 33 | ||||||
| Engineers | 2 | 3 | 1 | 16 | |||||||
| Cavalry— | |||||||||||
| 1st Brigade: | |||||||||||
| H.M. 3rd Lt. Drag. | 5 | 4 | 22 | ||||||||
| 4th Cavalry | 5 | ||||||||||
| 5th ditto | 10 | ||||||||||
| 9th Irregulars | |||||||||||
| 2nd Brigade: | |||||||||||
| H.M. 9th Lancers | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2nd Irregulars | |||||||||||
| 3rd Brigade: | |||||||||||
| H.M. 16th Lancers. | |||||||||||
| Body-Guard. | |||||||||||
| 3rd Light Cavalry. | |||||||||||
| 1st Infantry Division— | |||||||||||
| Staff | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
| 1st Brigade: | |||||||||||
| H.M. 31st Regt. | 35 | 7 | 112 | ||||||||
| 47th Native Infantry | 1 | 7 | 4 | 64 | |||||||
| 2nd Brigade: | |||||||||||
| H.M. 50th Regt. | 1 | 41 | 11 | 186 | |||||||
| 42nd Native Infantry | 8 | 2 | 3 | 53 | |||||||
| Nusseeree Battalion. | 6 | 1 | 6 | 74 | |||||||
| 2nd Division— | |||||||||||
| Staff | 2 | 3 | |||||||||
| 3rd Brigade: | |||||||||||
| H.M. 29th Regt. | 1 | 55 | 13 | 7 | 132 | ||||||
| 41st Native Infantry | 2 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 100 | ||||||
| 68th ditto | 1 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 67 | ||||||
| 4th Brigade: | |||||||||||
| 1st Europeans | 2 | 2 | 31 | 10 | 16 | 142 | |||||
| 16th Native Infantry | 6 | 2 | 23 | 123 | |||||||
| Sirmoor Battalion | 1 | 13 | 7 | 123 | |||||||
| 3rd Division:— | |||||||||||
| Staff | 1 | ||||||||||
| 5th Brigade: | |||||||||||
| H.M. 9th Regt | 5 | 1 | 2 | 26 | |||||||
| 26th Native Infantry | 3 | 2 | 3 | 19 | |||||||
| H.M. 62nd Regt. | 1 | 3 | 7 | 123 | |||||||
| 6th Brigade: | |||||||||||
| H.M. 80th Regt. | 13 | 7 | 123 | ||||||||
| 33rd Native Infantry | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 54 | |||||
| 63rd ditto | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 26 | ||||||
| 7th Brigade: | |||||||||||
| H.M. 10th Regt. | 1 | 1 | 29 | 2 | 2 | 98 | |||||
| 43rd Native Infantry | 7 | 2 | 9 | 85 | |||||||
| 59th ditto | 4 | 1 | 7 | 53 | |||||||
| H.M. 53rd Regt. | 1 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 104 | ||||||