+---------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+ | |_Officers._| _Men._ | | _Regiments._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | K. | W. | K. | W. | +---------------------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |16th Lancers | - | - | 2 | 7 | |39th Dorset | 1 | 10 | 29 | 174 | |40th S. Lancs | - | 8 | 23 | 151 | |Governor-General's Bodyguard | - | - | - | - | |2nd Q.O.L.I. | - | 1 | 3 | 16 | |Bengal Artillery | 1 | - | 6 | 36 | |Bengal Engrs. | - | - | - | - | |6th Jat Light Infantry | - | - | 1 | 4 | |12th Pioneers (Khelat-i-Ghilzai Regt.) | - | - | 2 | 7 | +---------------------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ On the same day General Grey found another division of the Gwalior army entrenched at Punniar. On this occasion our losses amounted to 35 killed and 182 wounded, our trophies to twenty-four guns. The result of the two engagements was the destruction of the military power of Gwalior. CASUALTIES AT THE BATTLE OF PUNNIAR. +--------------+-----------+-----------+ | |_Officers._| _Men._ | | _Regiments._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | K. | W. | K. | W. | +--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |9th Lancers | - | - | - | - | |The Buffs | 1 | 3 | 10 | 56 | |Roy. W. Kent | 1 | 1 | 8 | 32 | |6th K.E. Cav. | - | - | 1 | 3 | +--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ CHAPTER XVIII BATTLE HONOURS FOR THE CONQUEST OF THE PUNJAB Moodkee--Ferozeshah--Aliwal--Sobraon--Chillianwallah--Multan --Goojerat--Punjab. The British conquest of the Punjab embraces two distinct phases--the one represented by the Sutlej Campaign of 1845-46, the other better known as the Punjab War of 1849. The extension of our dominions to the North-West, the gradual break-up and absorption of the hitherto independent principalities in Southern and Central India, had brought our frontiers conterminous with those of the powerful Sikh monarchy of Runjeet Singh. That monarch was a well-wisher--outwardly, at any rate--of his neighbours, and during the Afghan War he proved his loyalty to us. On his death the sovereignty of the Sikhs fell into the hands of a group bitterly hostile to the English, and it was evident that there were members of the Sikh Regency who believed that the overthrow of the British was a matter of comparative ease. Into the merits of the quarrel it is not my province to enter. Suffice it to say that on December 11 the Sikh army crossed the Sutlej, the boundary river between the two kingdoms, and that the crossing constituted an act of war.