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...brigade as if they had seen a ghost. They fled, galloping their own horse artillery and leaving behind their comrades at the mercy of the Sikhs. Dalhousie reco

Artillery attacks were frequent when Punjab was still open to depredations of the Afg

...Colonel Van Cortlandt, an Anglo-Indian soldier of fortune. Van Cortlandt's artillery caused heavy losses and Edwardes's pakhtuns counter-attacked. Mulraj's forc ...siegers consisted of Whish's division ((8,089 men, 32 siege guns, 12 horse artillery guns), Edwardes's irregulars (4,033 cavalry and 7,718 infantry), a continge

...e booty of Sialkot garrison provided Charat Singh with a large quantity of artillery, war weapons and other equipment. When all was over, Charat Singh triumphan

...designer of ordnance. He cast shrapnel shells made of pewter for the Sikh artillery. He invented gun shell that would explode at a fixed place and time. He als

...ianvala and Gujrat. It has two illustrative maps and a plan indicating the artillery positions, as also certain geographical and statistical details. Full versi

...usand musketeers (burqandaz) and archers, and with these about ten guns of artillery and many elephants. In addition there were about ten thousand Ghazis. The t ...withstand the ferocity of Baj singh and soon vanquished and fled away. The artillery fire of the Mughals told heavily on the plunderers in Banda's camp. They we

...r in numbers. He had also realized how crucial a well drilled infantry and artillery was in warfare. ...ons of larger calibre and ammunition were undertaken on a large scale. The Artillery's training and command and ordnance were under Punjabi generals, Ilahi Bakh

...sign Brasyer was thirty-six years old. He had enlisted as a private in the artillery of the East India Company and later was promoted to quartermaster-sergeant

...ingh's habits and government; his passion for horses, his troops and horse artillery, his dancing girls and the Koh-i-Noor diamond. In January 1832, Burnes visi

The fort was surrounded by the Darbar forces. General Elahi Baksh's artillery pounded the massive walls for over a month without breaking the walls of th

...esigns of Ranjit Singh who, he says, "inspired by his high position, army, artillery and treasury, wishes to place the whole of the Punjab under his own control

...Nicholson a map of the Sikh entrenchments. During the battle, he kept his artillery battalions and the dreaded Ghorchards away from the battlefield. He himself

...d Ilahi Bakhsh, the latter of whom rose to the rank of general in the Sikh artillery. Part IV is a long dedicatory poem in honour of the Maharaja.

...ur to the right, and hastingly retreated towards Ludhiana. Ranjodh Singh's artillery opened up a cannonade on the retiring British force. A portion of it was wo

...about ninety kilometers north of Delhi). Employing gun carts, moveable artillery, and superior cavalry tactics, Babur achieved a resounding victory. A yea

...ords of British historian John Dark Marshman, "an officer of the Company's artillery became, in fact, the successor to Ranjit Singh." The Sikhs resented this gr ...ch howitzers drawn by elephants. In addition, there were 6 troops of horse artillery and 3 light and 2 heavy field batteries. Its total strength amounted to 24,

...gh malwai. In this fort were stationed 300 infantry men, 100 horsemen, 10 artillery men, two big and two small cannons.(3) ...amed Shankargarh. Here there were stationed 500 infantry, 300 cavalry, 35 artillery men, two big and 10 small cannons. Lehna Singh Sandhanwalia, a well-known w

...fter education at schools in Londonderry and Bristol, he joined the Bengal Artillery, in 1823, as a SecondLieutenant. In 1833, lie was appointed an officer for

...and captured both the preliminary objectives. The enemy brought down heavy artillery fire and counter-attacks three times. Two of the counter-attacks were beate ...and, anticipating an attack, the enemy had ensured heavy concentration of artillery fire. The attack was launched before midnight on November 2, 1965.