Orders had been given that as soon as the ridge was cleared our men were to return to Shinwari, but their obedience to this order had an unfortunate result. The enemy immediately took it as a sign of weakness, and returned to the attack. They quickly regained the ridge, and, rushing down its front, harassed our retreating men. Thus a brilliant victory assumed the complexion of a defeat, and the moral effect of this upon the tribesmen was not to our advantage. A more conclusive battle, however, took place two days later at about the same spot. General Lockhart gave orders that the frontal attack on the heights should be combined with an advance down the defile, but in the event General Yeatman-Biggs decided to confine himself to the former. Again the Gurkhas were flung forward. But this time the tribesmen had increased their force, and the brave little men left many dead and wounded in their track. The Dorsetshires and the Sherwood Foresters followed them, and they in their turn suffered very heavily. For a whole hour death was as common as life, but there was no thought of retreat; it was a time for indomitable courage and tenacity. A moment arrived, about noon, when the 1st Gordons and the 3rd Sikhs prepared for a furious charge. The shrill pipes struck up as the Gordons, led by Colonel Mathias, dashed out into the open space, crossed it, and began to scale the steep hillside beyond. Difficult as this stupendous task appeared to the onlookers, it was achieved by these heroic mountaineers, though not without great loss. Once on the ridge the battle was won. The enemy, unable to check this determined assault, abandoned his position and fled in confusion. This time the ridge was not only cleared, but held for good; and our forces found their way open before them through the Chagru Kotal Pass. In this Tirah Expedition there was much valuable native blood shed, expecially in the Khurmauna Defile, where a native officer and thirty-five Sikhs were cut off in a ravine and every one of them killed. The Gurkhas, to whom the life of a victory is that only a few come back, had their full share of the joy of battle, with well-earned glory, in this immortal storming of the Dargai Heights. A LIST OF INDIAN NATIVE REGIMENTS The following is a list of the Indian Native Regiments from the ranks of which the 70,000 now fighting at the front are drawn:-- _Indian Cavalry_ GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S BODY-GUARD. BATTLE HONOURS.--"Java," "Ava," "Maharajpore," "Moodkee," "Ferozeshah," "Aliwal," "Sobraon," "Seetabuldee." UNIFORM.--_Scarlet_, facings _blue_. 1ST DUKE OF YORK'S OWN LANCERS. (Skinner's Horse.) BATTLE HONOURS.--"Bhurtpore," "Kandahar 1842," "Afghanistan 1879/80," "Pekin 1900." UNIFORM.--_Yellow_, facings _black velvet_. _Colonel-in-Chief_--THE KING. 2ND LANCERS. (Gardner's Horse.) BATTLE HONOURS.--"Arracan," "Sobraon," "Punjab," "Egypt 1882," "Tel-el-Kebir." UNIFORM.--_Blue_, facings _light blue_. 3RD SKINNER'S HORSE.