The advance guard marched at half-past seven.

At eight o'clock flanking parties were engaged with the enemy in the hills and spurs.

Serious opposition, however, did not take place until five and a half miles of the valley had been passed.
Here the river turned to the right, and the front of the advance was exposed to the fire of a strongly-fortified village, nestling on the lower slope of a hill, on a terrace plateau.

The village was furnished with no fewer than ten towers, and from these a very heavy fire was kept up.
The battery shelled the spur; while the Sikhs, in open order, skirmished up the terraces to the plateau and, after a brisk fusillade, took the village and burnt it.
A mile farther, the head of the column reached the camping place, which was a strong village built into the river cleft.

On the left the 36th Sikhs and part of the Ghoorkhas cleared the way; while the Bombay Pioneers, and the rest of the Ghoorkhas, became heavily engaged with the enemy in some villages on the right.