The Third Light Dragoons crossed the Sutlej on the 13th February, 1846, and marched on _Lahore_, where the British army arrived on the 20th, and encamped on that soil held sacred by the Khalsa troops, the 'Plains of Myan Meer,' where it remained until the 24th March. The object for which the army was assembled having been attained, the Third Light Dragoons returned to their former quarters at Umballa on the 7th April, having, in less than four months, marched upwards of six hundred miles, and taken a conspicuous part in _three_ of the greatest actions recorded in the annals of British India. On the 22nd of February, 1846, the Right Honourable the Governor-General made the following announcement in General Orders:-- 'The British Army has this day occupied the gateway of the _Citadel of Lahore_, the Badshahee Mosque, and the Huzzooree Bagh. 'The _Army of the Sutlej_ has now brought its operations in the field to a close, by the dispersion of the Sikh army, and the military occupation of _Lahore_, preceded by a series of the most triumphant successes ever recorded in the military history of India. 'The British government, trusting to the faith of treaties, and to the long subsisting friendship between the two states, had limited military preparations to the defence of its own frontier. Compelled suddenly to assume the offensive, by the unprovoked invasion of its territories, the British Army, under the command of its distinguished leader, has, in sixty days, defeated the Sikh forces in _four general actions_; has captured _two hundred and twenty pieces_ of field artillery; and is now at the _Capital_ dictating to the _Lahore Durbar_ the terms of a treaty, the conditions of which will tend to secure the British Provinces from the repetition of a similar outrage.' On the 4th March, 1846, the Governor-General made the following further announcement:-- 'Early on the morning of the 22nd February, a brigade of British troops took formal possession of the _Citadel of Lahore_, the Badshahee Musjed, and the Huzzooree Bagh.