The besiegers were waiting for the siege train with which to breach the walls, and the mutineers having learned that it was en route, sallied forth in considerable numbers to intercept it; but Nicholson, with 1,600 infantry, 400 cavalry, and a battery of field guns, set out on August 25th to save the train. The troops had to cross the swamps, made more difficult by the ceaseless rain; but after wading through them, the water sometimes over the horses' backs, and along the rain-drenched roads, they came up with the enemy at Nujutgurh after a march of twelve hours. The mutineers numbered 6,000, but the tired and drenched soldiers of Britain, led by the daring Nicholson, charged the enemy, placed 800 of them hors de combat, captured 13 guns, and sent the sepoys flying back to Delhi. Retracing their steps, the little force, having lost 60 men, arrived back in camp, having in forty hours, during twenty-four of which they were foodless, marched 35 miles and beaten and dispersed an army of well-trained men.
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EGYPTIAN MEDAL FOR 1882.
(Obverse.)
KHEDIVE'S BRONZE STAR FOR 1882.
HONG-KONG PLAGUE MEDAL.
Awarded to about 350 of the Shropshire Light Infantry, Engineers, and men of the R.N.