The chase continued for nearly five miles, until daylight began to fail and we appeared to have got to the end of the fugitives, when the order was given to wheel to the right and form up on the road.

Before, however, this movement could be carried out, we overtook a batch of mutineers, who faced about and fired into the squadron at close quarters.

I saw Younghusband fall, but I could not go to his assistance, as at that moment one of his _sowars_ was in dire peril from a sepoy who was attacking him with his fixed bayonet, and had I not helped the man and disposed of his opponent, he must have been killed.

The next moment I descried in the distance two sepoys making off with a standard, which I determined must be captured, so I rode after the rebels and overtook them, and while wrenching the staff out of the hands of one of them, whom I cut down, the other put his musket close to my body and fired; fortunately for me it missed fire, and I carried off the standard.[3] [Illustration: Plan of the Engagement on the Banks of the KALI NADI at KHUDAGANJ January 2nd.

1858.] Tyrrell Ross, attracted by a party of men in the rear of the squadron bending over the fallen Younghusband, now came up, and, to everyone's great grief, pronounced the wound to be mortal.