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On the 21st of November, Lord Gough joined the British army assembled at Saharum. The Sikh forces were found posted at Ramnuggur. In front of this place flows the Chenab River, which has in mid-channel a small island, on which, protected by a grove of trees, was placed a battery of six guns, with some 400 men.
Among the officers slain on this occasion was Lieutenant A.J. Cureton, the son of Colonel Cureton, who was killed at Ramnuggur. On the extreme left, however, the cavalry, under Sir Joseph Thackwell, were victorious wherever they encountered the enemy.
The deposed rajahs have as a rule been sent to Benares, as if our Government wished to compensate them for the loss of their dominion by conferring on them special religious advantages. On the opposite side of the Ganges, a little above the southern end of the city, is the town of Ramnuggur, with a population of 10,000.
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