The large war camp behind had been looted and burnt, and the stockade pulled down.

The guns had failed to penetrate this, and the defenders were only driven out at the point of the bayonet, after a fight of two hours' duration.
The loss had been heavy.

Half a dozen white officers were wounded, and seventeen Sikhs had been killed or wounded, out of a total of fifty who had gone into action.

The total casualties mounted up to seventy..