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OUR ANGLO-INDIAN ARMY.
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can attend the movement of an army, even in an enemy's country.

On the 15th of July, the guns became so firmly embedded in the mud that formed the basis of the road by which they had to be transported, as to defy all the efforts made to extricate them. They were consequently spiked and abandoned; and the march was then continued through a country completely under water. The Chumbulee rivulet was crossed, and on the 29th the whole of the corps was at Tonk Rampoora. On its progress several trifling conflicts took place, in all of which the character of the British troops was maintained.

As soon as the situation of Colonel Monson at Mokundra had become known to the Commander-in-Chief,