A squadron of the Guides cavalry charged them, killing about thirty, and putting the rest to flight.
"The transport was now being gradually pushed up, and the brigade encamped at Khar, at half-past seven.

As the enemy were in great force on the surrounding hills, a night attack was expected, and the troops lay down with fixed bayonets.
"The capture of these passes spread great consternation through the Swat valleys, as the tribes had always believed that they were impregnable, and boasted that an enemy had never entered their territory.

They had fought with desperate bravery to defeat us; although we had no quarrel with them, and merely wished to get through their country to reach Chitral.

Curiously enough, they had a strong belief in our magnanimity, and several of their wounded actually came into camp to be attended to by our surgeons.
"On the 5th of April the 1st Brigade remained all day in camp, the 2nd Brigade going on seven or eight miles farther.

Early on the morning of the 7th, a party went down the river to make a bridge.