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328 stacked within the Álambágh all the camp equipage not required for the hard work in prospect. His last reinforcements arriving that evening, he placed the 75th, which had suffered much, and the strength of which had been reduced to something under 300, within the Álambágh, to relieve the men till then located there. He gave them, also, a few Sikhs from Brasyer's regiment and some guns. Counting up his men, he found that, after deducting those sent back with sick and wounded and the garrison of the Álambágh, he had fit for service about 4700 men. These he divided into six brigades. There were the Naval brigade, commanded by William Peel; the Artillery brigade, comprising the batteries of Blunt, Remmington, Travers, Bridge, and Bourchier, commanded by Brigadier Crawford; the Cavalry brigade, led by Brigadier Little, and comprising two squadrons of the 9th Lancers, one each of the 1st, 2d, and 5th Panjáb Cavalry, and Hodson's Horse; the 3d Infantry brigade, commanded by Greathed, and composed of the remnant of the 8th, of a battalion formed of detachments of the three regiments shut up in the Residency, and the 2d Panjáb N. I.; the 4th, led by Adrian Hope, and consisting of the 93d, a wing of the 53d, the 4th Panjáb Infantry, and a battalion also formed from men proceeding to join the regiments to be relieved; the 5th, led by Russell, and comprising the 23d Fusiliers and a portion of the 82d. Hope Grant, with the rank of Brigadier-General, directed the operations, under the supervision of the Commander-in-Chief.

The following morning the troops, having breakfasted, set out at nine o'clock, and after some skirmishing carried the Dilkushá. Not halting there, they pressed on to the Martinière and carried that also. Sir Colin proceeded to secure the position thus gained by placing in the gardens of the Martinière Hope's brigade and Remmington's troop.