As the victorious British force swept along past the city, Sir Colin
Campbell detached a force under General Mansfield to attack and occupy the
position of the Subadar's Tank--which was captured after some hard
fighting. Thus the British were in a position in rear of the enemy's left.
The mutineers, seeing that their right was utterly defeated, and the
retreat of their left threatened, lost all heart, and as soon as darkness
came on, fled, a disorganized rabble, from the city they had entered as
conquerors only six days before. The cavalry started next day in pursuit,
cut up large numbers, and captured the greater part of their guns.

The threatening army of Gwalior thus beaten and scattered, and Cawnpore in
our hands, Sir Colin Campbell was able to devote his whole attention to
clearing the country in his rear, and in preparing for the great final
campaign against Lucknow, which, now that Delhi had fallen, was the
headquarters of the mutiny.

The next two months were passed in a series of expeditions by flying
columns. In some of these the Warreners took part, and both shared in the
defeats of the Sepoys and the capture of Futtyghur and Furruckabad--places
at which horrible massacres of the whites had taken place in the early
days of the mutiny. During these two months large reinforcements had
arrived; and Jung Bahadoor, Prince of Nepaul, had come down with an army
of ten thousand Ghoorkas to our aid.

On the 15th of February the tremendous train of artillery, ammunition and
stores, collected for the attack upon the city, began to cross the river;
and upon the 26th of the month the order was given for the army to move
upon the following day.

The task before it was a difficult one. From all the various points from