A History of Assam c14.52

c14.52

They found that the Moāmariās had advanced the same morning, and were at that moment quite close to Jorhat. Without waiting for the rest of his force, Macgregor at once mustered the party of twenty men under the Subadar, who had arrived the previous day, and led them out in support of the Burhā Gohāin's troops. He had just drawn up his small force, with their right covered by an embankment, when he was attacked by a mob of two thousand Moāmariās, who came crowding on, confident of victory. The sepoys, although they received but little aid from the Burhā Gohāin's troops, behaved with great coolness; they obeyed the instructions of their two officers to fire singly and at separate objects, and inflicted such heavy losses upon the enemy, that the latter were soon in full retreat. No casualties were suffered by the little detachment. About 1 P.M., the same afternoon Lieutenant Macgregor was again attacked while reconnoitring, but soon routed his assailants. His loss was only four men wounded. The Moāmariās in the two engagements lost about eighty killed and wounded.