three in the morning
Fighting continued , however , on the peaks , far into the night . No explanations were forthcoming why the enemy should have allowed the force to pass through the defile , without obstruction , when a determined body of riflemen could have kept the whole of them at bay ; for the artillery could not have been brought into position , as the defile was the most difficult , of its kind , that a British division had ever crossed . The day following the withdrawal of the rear guard , it rained in the Bara Valley , which meant snow in the Maidan . The pickets on the heights had a bad time of it that night , as some of them were constantly attacked ; and it was not till three in the morning that the baggage came in , the rear guard arriving in camp about ten . The camp presented a wonderful sight that day , crowded as it was with men and animals . The weather was bitterly cold , and the men were busy gathering wood to make fires . On the hills all round , the Sikhs could be seen engaged with the enemy , the guns aiding them with their work .