three
o'clock
General Westmacott was in command of the brigade . The Borderers were to take and hold the opposite hill , supported by a company of Dorsets and of Scottish Fusiliers . The battery opened fire , while a party turned the nearest sangars on the right flank . By three o'clock the whole of the crests were held , and the baggage streamed into camp . 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 .