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Death of Brigadier
General Cureton, in the Skirmish near Ramnugger
The Illustrated London
News - "Nothing could exceed the accuracy of the enemy's
fire; their range was beauifully taken for certain points,
showing that they must have discovered them previous to
our advance; and our artillery officers say they never saw
anything finer than the way their Horse Artillery were brought
up to the edge of the river, and formed up. No nation could
exceed them in the rapidity of their fire. It is said that
a Frenchman, late an officer in the Maharajah Runjeet Singh's
service, aide-de-camp to General Avitabile, named L'Enfant,
commands them. No men could act more bravely than the Sikhs.
They faced us the moment we came on them, firing all the
time, and, when we did come on them, some opened out and
immediately after closed round us, while others threw themselves
on their faces or turned their backs, protecte by a shield
from the stroke of the Dragoon sbre, and the moment that
was given, turned round, hamstrung the horse, and shot the
rider, while their individual acts of bravery were the admiration
of all...." 27/1/1849
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