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.

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.