Once reinforcements arrive, an Army expeditionary force…
February 1857 CE
The British appropriate or destroy the supplies at the site, then halt on February 5 near the village of Khoosh-Ab, where good water is available.
Outram advances further on the 6th and 7th, but seeing the enemy retreat into the mountains beyond his reach and being short of rations, he decides not to risk a mountain pursuit but instead to fall back to the wells near Khoosh-Ab or Khushab for a logistic pause, before returning to Bushire.
The Persians, encouraged by the retreat of Havelock's forces, occupy with eight thousand men a position dominating Outram's camp, catching the British in a potentially dangerous situation.
Outram attacks this position on 7–8 February in the Battle of Khushab, and manages to inflict a defeat on the Persians in what will turn out to be the largest battle of the war, with seventy to two hundred Persian dead.
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