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86 for his wearied troops he allowed them to halt in the hope of completing his victory on the next day. But during the night Khán Bahádur Khán evacuated the town with the greater part of his army.

Thus that portion of the rebel garrison which had escaped from Lucknow into Rohilkhand got back again into Oudh; and in this way the termination of the Rohilkhand campaign was not more satisfactory than the result of the operations in Oudh. Once more this latter province claimed the attention of the military authorities, and for many months to come it was the scene of extended movements under the supervision of the Commander-in-Chief himself. Reaching Fatehgarh on May 25th, 1858, Sir Colin Campbell remained there till June 5th, while Brigadier Lugard and others had meanwhile been engaged under his orders in clearing Behar of rebel bands; the operations resulting in the death of Koer Singh, one of the ablest of their leaders, and the gradual pacification of the province. A notable incident in these operations was the relief of Azamgarh, on the 6th April, 1858, by Colonel (now General) Lord Mark Kerr, who, with the headquarters of the 13th Light Infantry, a troop of cavalry, and two guns, forced his way through, and defeated, an ambuscade of many thousand Sepoys under Koer Singh.

Sir Colin Campbell now considered that the British troops in Oudh should remain on the defensive until the return of the cold weather; but being continually harassed by small bands of rebels they were kept in