Right Column--Colonel Delamain: 200 of the Munster Fusiliers, the 58th Bengal Infantry, and 2nd Sirmoor Gurkhas.
Centre Column--Brigadier M'Combe (14th Foot): Four companies of the 14th (West Yorkshire), the 23rd and 63rd Bengal Infantry.
Left Column--Brigadier Whitehead: Two companies of the 14th Foot (West Yorkshire), the 18th and 60th Bengal Infantry.
Left Column--Brigadier Paton: Four companies of the 14th Foot (West Yorkshire), the 6th and 41st Bengal Infantry.
Reserve--Brigadier Whitehead: Two companies of the 14th Foot (West Yorkshire), the 21st and 32nd Bengal Infantry.
The remainder of the army was drawn up to the left of the fortress to afford general aid. The defence was most stubborn, all three commanders of the assaulting columns being badly wounded; but the men of the 14th (the "Old Bucks" of those days, now the West Yorkshire) would not be denied, and ere sunset the fortress was in our possession. The individual losses of the existing regiments were:
+------------------------+-----------------------+ | |_Officers._| _Men._ | | _British Troops._ |-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | K. | W. | K. | W. | +------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |11th Hussars | - | 1 | 2 | 7 | |16th Lancers | - | 1 | 1 | 5 | |Bengal Artillery | - | 2 | 8 | 11 | |Bengal Enginrs. | 2 | 7 | 13 | 30 | |14th W. Yorks | 2 | 7 | 31 | 99 | |59th E. Lancs | 2 | 8 | 16 | 97 | |101st Munster Fusiliers | - | 3 | 10 | 42 | +------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+ | |_Officers._| _Men._ | | _Native Troops._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | K. | W. | K. | W. | +-------------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |2nd Q.O. Rajput Light Infantry | 1 | 3 | 11 | 20 | |3rd Brahmans | - | - | 1 | 11 | |1st Gurkhas | - | 1 | 4 | 21 | |2nd Gurkhas | - | - | 3 | 15 | |1st Skinner's Horse | - | - | 1 | 7 | +-------------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+
NOTE.--Of the many native infantry regiments above enumerated the 15th have become the 2nd Queen's Own Light Infantry, the 32nd the 3rd Brahmans, the 33rd is the 4th Rajputs, and the 63rd the 9th Gurkhas. The remainder, with the exception of the Gurkha regiments, were lost to us in 1857.