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HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NA^T. 383
Of less tlum one thousand warriors, five hundred were left on
the fiekl dead or wounded, and two hundred and thirty-six were
made prisoners, of whom ninety-six were wounded. The main
attack was directed on the right brigade, consisting of four
hundred men of HJI.'s 65th Regiment, and three hundred of
the 1st Battalion 7th Native Infantry, nnder Colonel Warren of
the former regiment, and of the total loss of twenty-nine killed
and one hundred and seventy-three wounded, the Goth lost four
killed and thirty-eight wounded, and the 7th Native Infantry
twenty-two killed and one hundred and twenty-six wounded.
After the repulse of the main attack the fort was cannonaded
and surrendered, and so ended this little war. The British
column blew up the works and defences, the Imamn's soldiers
cut down the date-groves and turned away the water-courses,
and then, having made a desert of what was once a smiling
oasis, inhabited by brave men, the avenging troops marched
back to Sohar, whence the British division embarked for India.
The Bombay Marine* squadron employed in this Expedition,
received the thanks of the Governor of Bombay in Council,
and while every officer and man participated in the great I'ati-
gues incidental to landing and transporting the materiel of a
small army in the field, a detachment were fortunate enough to
share in the dangers and glories, such as they were, of the
action of the 2nd of March. These were deemed sufficiently
great to cause the Bomba}'- Government, b}' a General Order,
dated the 11th of February, 1831, ten years after the service,
to permit the Company's troops engaged in the Expedition to
bear on their colours and ajjpointnients the word *' Beni-hoo-
Ali ;" and H.M.'s 65th Kegiment* also bear the word " Arabia'
* The only officer of the old Bombay Marine surviving in this year (1877) 'who
took part in the operations against Beni-boo-Ali, is Captain Kiehard Kinchnnt,
wlio was first-lieutenant of tlie ' Prince of Wales,' and liad cliarge of the lirst
division of transports. This old officer is also the sole survivor of those wlio took
part in the Mahratta War of 1817-18, wliere, as second-lieutenant of the 'Thetis,'
he was engaged at the capture of Severndroog, Gheriali, and Afahvan, on tiie
Malabar Coast ; he also participated in the operations befoi-e Ka>-ul-Khynia]i
and Zayah, wlicre, as he says in a letter to us, "we slept on the bare sand, with a
rock for a pillow, and for a canopy the heavens above us."
f This was the last service performed by tliis distinguished regiment in India,
where since its arrival on the 7th May, 1803, it had seen much arduous work.
After participating in the operations against the Mahrattas, including the unsuc-
cessful siege of the Great Jaut fortress of IJhurtpore by Lord Lake's army m
1805, the regiment arrived at Bombay in ISO'.I, when the command was assumed
by Lieutenant-Colonel Lionel Smith ; fi-om this date until its return to Englsmd,
it was constantly employed on service with the Bom. bay Marine. Tiio Gotli was
first engaged hi the Expe lition of 1809 against the Joasmis, and on its return
landed at Bombay on the 21st February, 1810. On the iJjth September follow-
ing, it sailed from Bombay in company with the 81t]i, and took part in tlie
reduction of the Island of Mauritius, which it quitted ibr Bondiay on the 3nl of
January, 1811. After a few weeks passed in Ceylon, the regiment landed at
Bombay on the 21st of April, and participated in tlie expedition, under command
of its colonel, against the chief of Nowaiuiggur in Kaitywar. On tlu> fall of this
place on the 22nd of February, 1812, when the Bombay Marine acted iu co-