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...ervice. Whether in the British Indian Army or the post-independence Indian Army, Sikhs have always been disproportionately represented martially. Identified by the British as a "martial race" and specifically targeted for recruitment due to the be

...were thus allowed to escape from there and form junction with Lord Cough's army at Ferozeshah. After the reverse at Ferozeshah, Lal Singh fled to Lahore an ..., to thwart the occupation by Gulab Singh of the valley granted him by the British under a treaty signed on 16 March 1846. Lal Singh was tried by a Court of I

...tween the forces of the British East India Company and the [[Khalsa]], the army of the [[Sikh]] kingdom of the Punjab. The Sikhs were completely defeated, ...provocations by the British East India Company, led to the Khalsa invading British territory.

...Nanyuki is currently the main airbase of the Kenya Air Force. The British Army also keeps a base at The Nanyuki Show Ground (NSG) from where it conducts y

...amid all social glitter. He began to be looked upon with suspicion by the British and, in secret official correspondence, he was termed 'disaffected.' ...to Kabul. Their plan was to win over Afghanistan and march a German Afghan army into India. Mahendra Partap was in touch with Umrao Singh who was related t

...ern Command and Rawalpindi became the largest British military garrison in British India. ..., in Liaquat Garden. Today Rawalpindi is the headquarters of the Pakistani Army and Air Force.

...treasury were entrusted to Badri Nath's corps and he was granted Order of British India for his services in suppressing the rebellion. He retired from servic

...and Raja Dina Nath was made its President, with the active support of the British. ...er Kashmiri Pandit notables had succeeded in winning the confidence of the British conquerers, the latter meted out to them great encouragement, and made them

...mmu and Kashmir]] to Raja Gulab Singh (who behind the scenes had aided the British interests) who then took the title Maharaja.

...f the Sikh army carries the suggestion that it was inferior to the British army, though superior to the forces of other princes of India. The book contains

...llion is well known. What isn’t is the crucial role played by troops from British India in lifting the siege, which eventually paved the way for the occupat ...the Treaty of Nanking in 1842 and the opening up of Chinese ports to the British.

..., 1st Viscount Hardinge, GCB, PC (30 March 1785 – 24 September 1856) was a British field marshal and Governor-general of India. ==Army career==

...Francis, who arrived at Lahore in 1833 and joined Maharaja Ranjit Singl's army. ...Vivek as Guran, the fortune teller utters, rather growls the word as some British Soldiers marched by.

The British, who had been waiting for the right moment to intervene and establish their ...active providing personal inspiration and organizing supplies for the Sikh Army. Soon after the defeat at Gujrat, all the other Sikh chiefs had been captur

...nged contest between the city and state of Multan on the one hand, and the British East India Company on the other. It can be said to have lasted between Apri ...lraj. In that year, the First Anglo-Sikh War broke out, and was won by the British East India Company. There was an uneasy peace for three years, during which

...ingh and the AngloSikh wars, ending in the annexation of the Punjab to the British dominions.

...ian born in Finale Emilia. Born to Jewish parents he served in Napoleon's army as a colonel of infantry and had taken part in the battle of Wagram (1809), ...for the Gurkhas in the Lahore army which style was later adopted by the British for their Gurkha troops.

...illages are mostly Jats because of the enforcement of new Land Laws by the British in the year 1920, the land revenue record even today stands in the name of The first Doaba Rajput to join the army of [[Guru Gobind Singh]] was [[Sangat Singh Minhas]] of Padhiana in the Jal

...to power. When Kanvar [[Nau Nihal Singh]] fell out with [[Col. Wade]], the British political agent at Ludhiana, Lahina Singh was deputed along with [[Faqir Az ...41, the Darbar intercepted a letter from Atar Singh Sandharivalia, then in British territory, to Lahina Singh and Kchar Singh Sandhanvalia, both of whom comma

..., children who were murdered by these mutineers, all over North India. The British reprisals were even more brutal and even included massive destruction of se ...ft the warriors were soon being asked to fill new regiments in the British army to keep the Afghans at bay.