By the 15th November my column1 (consisting of 1,345 British and 3,990 Native soldiers, with 13 guns) was concentrated at Thal, and on the 20th-the limit of time given to the Amir-no reply having been vouchsafed to the Viceroy's ultimatum, orders were issued to the three columns to advance the next day.2
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