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• Anglo-Sikh wars' artillery
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• Sikh Artillery of the Anglo-Sikh Wars
  ==Firepower, the Royal Artillery Museum, London== ...marily consist of the uniforms, weapons, medals and equipment of the Royal Artillery. There is also a large archive and library dealing with all aspects of the
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• Ilahi Bakhsh
  ...who commanded the special artillery wing of FaujiKhas and a portion of the artillery corps named DerahiIlahi Bakhsh. General Ilalu Bakhsh's lopkhdnd look part i ...nts and the review of troops. Sir Lepel Griffin described him as "the best artillery officer in the Sikh army."
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• John Brown
  ...tillery in 1826. He was later promoted colonel and placed in charge of the artillery depot at Lahore. During the first AngloSikh war, he acted as a British spy.
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• Imam Shah
  ...t Singh's army entered the service ofJodh Singh ofWazirabad in 1809 as an artillery Jamadar. He was of Persian descent and a grandson of Qamar udDin, an office during the first AngloSikh war. His son, Muhammad Shah, a commandant in Sikh artillery, also took part in the battle along with his father.
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• Sikh Artillery of the Anglo-Sikh Wars
  ==Firepower, the Royal Artillery Museum, London== ...marily consist of the uniforms, weapons, medals and equipment of the Royal Artillery. There is also a large archive and library dealing with all aspects of the
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• Fauj I Khas
  ...i-Khas had 4 battalions of infantry, 2 regiments of cavalry and a troop of artillery. The cavalry was built on a British model and the infantry on French patter ...the European officers, and encouragement by the Maharaja, the infantry and artillery gained importance, and by the time of the death of Ranjit Singh, the infant
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• Hest
  ...who, before joing the Sikh army in 1843, was the commandant of Hyderabad artillery. According to Carmichael Smyth, he was killed at Lahore.
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• Sikh Khalsa Army
  ...000 (quarter of a million). The Artillery division, in 1838, had 188 heavy artillery guns. ...cs (Standing force)Year Regular Infantry Cavalry Irregular Infantry/Forces Artillery Personnel Total
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• Hureleek
  * Soldier and Traveller: Memoirs of Alexander Gardner, Colonel of Artillery By Alexander [Haughton Campbell] Gardner
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• FRANCIS JOHN CANORA
  ...is loyalty to the Lahore Darbar was suspect. In 1848, he was commanding an artillery battery at Hazara and was under the overall command of Chatar Singh Atariva
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• Hisab e Afwaj Maharaja Ranjit Singh
  ...ections it deals with are: Infantry (ff. 1135), Cavalry (ff. 136203a), and Artillery (ff. 204a477a). ...lso bardwards of the paltans or battalions and of the zamburkhand or light artillery, of swivel guns and of the topkhana or arsenals. The regimental staff of th
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• Sant Kishan Singh
  In his youth, he joined the ranks of artillery of Patiala. Along with the artillery priest Gurbaksh Singh, he undertook the charge of attending the service of Co-incidentally, many soldiers of the Patiala artillery were the followers of Sant Attar Singh Ji of Reru Sahib. He too joined the
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• Chittisinghpura murder of Sikhs : Letter from SAD (A)
  ...Col Saxsena's company commander was Major Shorab Sharma previously from an artillery regiment then posted in 7RR at Rampura, a distance of 3 kilometers from Chi ...Sikhs attached to Col. Saxsena as guards who were from Punjab regiment and Artillery were sent into the companies of 7RR.
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• Thakar Singh Atarivala
  ...hawar in the time of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, he served as a commandant of artillery. He died in 1842 during the lifetime of his father.
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• Paul S Pabla
  ...23, of Fort Wayne, Ind.; assigned to the Army National Guard's 139th Field Artillery, Kempton, Ind.; died July 3 in Mosul, Iraq, of injuries sustained from enem ...attained the rank of staff sergeant and was assigned to the 2-150th Field Artillery. He enjoyed running, cycling, music and photography. He had a special inter
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• Lairdee
  '''Lairdee''' (d. 1846), an Englishman who deserted the East India Company's artillery and came to Lahore. He took up service under the Sikhs in 1842. He trained
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• Oms
  ...haraja Ranjit Singh's army. As a young man, he had enlisted in Napoleon's artillery. After France's defeat in 1815, he set out on his travels and reached Persi
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• Henry Fane
  ...r a grand review and inspected the contingent of British lancers and horse artillery, which had accompanied the commander-in-chief to Lahore. Sir Henry was also ...according to him, consisted of 6,070 regiments of infantry, 700 pieces of artillery and innumerable cavalry. His confidential report to Lord Auckland, the Gove
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• SIR JAMES ABBOTT
  ...bott's mercenary force surrounded the town. Commodore Canora, the Armenian artillery commander of the fortress, whom Abbott had won over, refused to move his ba
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• Bishan Singh, son of Sultan Singh
  ...anjit Singh. In Maharaja Sher Singh's time, he was placed in charge of the artillery park at Lahore. After the annexation of the Punjab by the British, Bishan S
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• William Sampson Whish
  ...ary 1787, the son of Richard Whish. He received a commission in the Bengal artillery in 1804. ...26, he was appointed to command the Karnal and Sirhind division of the artillery. In January 1848, he took over from Sir John Littler the command of Briti
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• Alexander Gardner
  ...cottish-American mercenary, who at times commanded units of Ranjit Singh's artillery forces. He often wore a uniform befitting a Scottish Highlander, including ...oirs fictitious. He credits Claude Auguste Court as the "architect of Sikh artillery."
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• European Adventures Of Northern India
  ...ribed as the "architect of Sikh artillery." He distinguished himself as an artillery commander and an ordnance officer. Paolo di Avitabile, a Neapolitan who dri
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• John Holmes
  ...ier of fortune, who started his career as a trumpeter in tlic Bengal Horse Artillery. In September 1829, lie left the British, and joined Maharaja Ranjit Singh'
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• Iqbal Namah Sarkar
  ...Details of top Officers, Ministers, Rulers, Generals (foreigners as well), Artillery-accord, Jamburkhana, Feelkhana, Stables and their officers, details of stat
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• Vijay Kumar Ahluwalia
  ...umni of National Defence Academy and was commissioned into the Regiment of Artillery from Indian Military Academy on 14 Nov 1971. A keen aviator, he has a great His command assignments include command of a Medium Artillery Regiment in Counter Insurgency Operational Area in Jammu & Kashmir, an Infa
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• Battle of Gujarat
  ...army at Chillianwala near the Jhelum River without proper reconnaisance or artillery support. Gough's army was driven back with heavy casualties. Sher Singh's a ...ot as effective as the belts of scrub and jungle which had hidden the Sikh artillery from view at Chillianwala.
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• Anglo-Sikh Wars
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• Battle of Ramnagar
  ...urs of the morning of November 22, he ordered a force of cavalry and horse artillery to move to the Chenab crossing near Ramnagar, apparently intending to captu ...lry) to attack them. These drove back the Sikhs but were then hit by heavy artillery fire. The Sikh cavalry also turned about and hit their attackers, causing h
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• Battle of Chillianwala
  ...ition and attack its left flank on the following day, but when some of his artillery engaged hovering Sikh cavalry, Sikh guns opened fire from hitherto conceale ...artillery numbered 66 guns, from the Royal Artillery and the Bengal Horse Artillery.
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• Battle of Ferozeshah
  ...r than the British guns, many of which were light guns of the Bengal Horse Artillery. Gough's heavy 18-pounder guns had been left behind at Mudki. As the artillery duelled, the British and Bengal infantry advanced. General Littler came und
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• Waqia - e - Jung - e - sikhan
  ...lowing morning that the Sikhs had already been defeated and dispersed. "An artillery battle from a distance ensued between the guns attached to the British cava ...10 February 1846, a little before dawn, the British opened the attack with artillery fire followed by advance by their main force. "The British guns wrought hav
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• Abd Us Samad Khan
  ...ousand sowars and an equal number of footsoldiers, besides a big topkhana (artillery), and closed in upon Banda Singh as he was putting up his defencive fortifi Khan's artillery barrages forced Banda Singh to come into the open field, where he made a d
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• Buddh Singh Man
  ...ded four regiments of infantry, one regiment of cavalry, and two troops of artillery. He remained on active duty during Maharaja Sher Singh's reign, but because
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• SIKHS AND THE SIKH WARS : THE RISE, CONQUEST, AND ANNEXATION OF THE PUNJAB STATE
  ...rigadier MacCaskill and Sir Harry Smith with 48 guns and 4 troops of horse artillery. The authors also take a onesided view of the annexation. Following Lord Da
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• Battle of Aliwal
  After the initial artillery salvoes, Smith determined that Aliwal was the Sikh weak point. He sent two ...regiment, and then cut down by fire from Smith's batteries of Bengal Horse Artillery.
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• Battle of Sobraon
  ...mmunication, and the arrival of reinforcements including much-needed heavy artillery and two battalions of Gurkhas. ...sion rejoined from Ludhiana, but Hardinge forced him to wait until a heavy artillery train had arrived. At last, he moved forward early on February 10. The star
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• Chhota Ghallughara
  ...began pounding the area with his cannons. Massively outgunned and with no artillery themselves, the Sikhs headed for the safety of the hills, as their attacker
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• Sir Edward Joseph Thackwell
  ...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
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• Forts In Punjab
  Artillery attacks were frequent when Punjab was still open to depredations of the Afg
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• Siege of Multan
  ...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
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• Nur-ud-din Bamzai
  ...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
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• Lahina Singh Majithia
  ...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
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• Tuhfat Ul Albab
  ...ianvala and Gujrat. It has two illustrative maps and a plan indicating the artillery positions, as also certain geographical and statistical details. Full versi
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• Battle of Sarhind
  ...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
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• Army of Maharaja Ranjit Singh
  ...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
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• Sikhs and the British
  ...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
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• Sir Alexander Burnes
  ...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
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• Invasion of Multan
  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
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• Amir ul Imla
  ...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
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• Raja Lal Singh
  ...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
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• Zafarnama I Ranjit Singh
  ...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.
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• Sardar Ranjodh Singh Majithia
  ...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
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• Mughal rule
  ...about ninety kilometers north of Delhi). Employing gun carts, moveable artillery, and superior cavalry tactics, Babur achieved a resounding victory. A yea
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• Anglo Sikh War II
  ...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,
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• The Nalwa Wall
  ...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
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• Henry Montgomery Lawrence
  ...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
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• Sikh Light Infantry
  ...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.
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• Subedar Joginder Singh
  ...t they regrouped quickly and launched a fresh attack under the cover of an artillery barrage.
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• Ranjodh Singh Majithia
  ...tour to the right, and hastily retreated towards Ludhiana. Ranjodh Singh's artillery opened up a cannonade on the retiring British force. A portion of it was wo
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• Claude Auguste Court
  ...ng there in early 1827. Maharaja RANJIT Singh gave Court employment in the artillery befitting his talents and scientific attainments. Court was responsible for
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• John Laird Mair Lawrence
  ...n Lawrence also disbanded and dispersed the 92,000 strong Khalsa army. Its artillery was dismantled and carted away to Calcutta, and its ghorcharndas and jagird
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• Chatar Singh Atarivala
  ...Haripur to expel the Sikh governor. At this juncture, Commodore Canora, an artillery officer in the Fort, who was in secret communication with Captain Abbott, r
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• Anglo Sikh War I
  ...e regiment at Sabathu in the hills and two at Ludhiana, with six pieces of artillery, equalling in all about 2,500 men. The total rose to 8,000 during the time ...riving at each of the frontier posts of Firozpur and Ludhiana. Cavalry and artillery regiments moved up to Ambala and Kasauli. Works were in the process of erec
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• Battle of Naushera
  ...Singh Nalua, Infantry by Dhanna Singh Malwai, and Jagat Singh Attariwala, Artillery by Mian Ghaus Khan. Dost Mohammed Khan managed to reconcile by paying a han ...ners in his military services. Famous one's were General Allard leading an artillery regiment and General Ventura leading a regiment made up of Poorbia (Bihar,
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• The First British Sikh Army
  ...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
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• Symbol of faith
  ...son. They argued that turbans offered as good a protection as helmets from artillery shells and aerial bombardment, if not better. No other headgear could take Yet in another case, Sikhs of the 12th Heavy Regiment of the Royal Artillery Hong Kong Battery, and some Sikhs of the Hong Kong Garrison refused to wear
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• Jean Baptiste Ventura
  ...men of regular infantry, a regiment each of grenadiers and dragoons and an artillery corps of 30 guns. It was partly trained on the British model and partly on
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• Tazkirah i Salatin I Chughtai
  ...is men were handed over to Ibrahim udDin Khan, the miriatash (commander of artillery) for confinement in prison inside the fort. His threeyearold son along with
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• Punjab insurgency
  ...erestimated the firepower possessed by the militants. Thus,tanks and heavy artillery were used to forcefully suppress the anti-tank and machine-gun fire. After
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• Jatha
  ...that most of the [[jatha]]s were gradually equipped with firearms. Heavy artillery pieces were not favoured, as they impeded mobility and speed. However, as
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• When Romans met the Sikhs
  ...n it sounded. They attacked with their artillery; when they finished their artillery fire they attacked with their guns; when they finished their bullets they f
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• Nalwa and NWFP
  ...hgarh Sahib. Inside this fort were stationed 800 infantry, 200 cavalry, 80 artillery men, 10 big cannons and 12 small cannons. Maha Singh, a seasoned general, w
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• Victoria Cross
  ...o was strongly dug in with his rearguards well protected by cleverly sited artillery. Dry gullies and deep ravines lay at right angles across the line of advanc ...wn the road between Kamya and Myingyan when it was pinned down by accurate artillery and machinegun fire directed at it from a series of strongpoints and foxhol
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• Bana Singh P.V.C.
  troops had been firing at the Post. There was no artillery fire, only machine guns. It is only when the attack started that artillery was
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• Jean Francois Allard
  ...giment of Dragoons in 1823. By 1825, the Fauji Khas (infantry, cavalry and artillery) was 5000-6000 strong. The training was based on a French pamphlet Allard h
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• Prince Fredrick
  ...ent much time with training units, and in France he was at a rest camp for artillery horses from the front where this photograph was taken and sent as a postcar
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• 1839 A.D - 1849 A.D. The turbulent years
  ...hile foot soldiers included poorbia mercenaries hired from all over India. Artillery was in command of a capable Punjabi leader named Mian Ghaus Khan. Support t ...he colapse was planned, citing the death of the Dogra Prince. The European artillery officer of Ranjit Singh recounted his being asked by [[Dhyan Singh Dogra]]
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• Sikh/Maratha Relations
  ...uary 1794, the Marathas with the support of Begam Samru's well disciplined artillery regiment could frustrate the Sikhs' attempt to seize Saharanpur. ...ardars on both sides of the Yamuna and was often successful because of his artillery, an arm the Sikhs were yet to possess. In April 1798, George Thomas gave u
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• Sant Atar Singh (Mastuana)
  At the age of seventeen, Atar Siṅgh enlisted as a gunner in the Artillery, later getting himself transferred to the 54th Sikh Battalion stationed at
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• Sahibzada Ajit Singh
  ...Nanak, to a place 12 kos from Sirhind; the despatch of a force of 700 with artillery and other material; his being besieged and vanquished in the haveli [i.e. l
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• Wadda Ghalughara
  ...i reached Lahore on 3rd Febrary 1762 with a large army, huge armaments and artillery. Recognizing the danger, S. Jassa Singh Ahluwalia and S. Charat Singh Sukar ...the attack (February 5th ,1762) Zain Khan attacked with his 20000 men and artillery. Abdali also joined the attack with 30000 horsemen. S. jassa Singh and s. C
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• Battle of Anandpur Sahib
  ...he hostile army at the thickest spot. The enemy made a charge to seize the artillery, but were quickly restrained by the fatal accuracy with which the Sikhs ser
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• Ahmad Shah Abdali's invasions
  ...battle was joined on the 11th. Ahmed Shah had only 30,000 horsemen, and no artillery. But during the battle, a force of 5,000 Pathans of Qasoor under Jamal Khan
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• Mahavir Chakra
  ...hu river area in NEFA. The Chinese attacked on the 20th October with heavy artillery and mortar. Quickly overrunning the outer defences they began to close in o ...my tanks as he attempted to reach the forward comapnies.Unmindful of heavy artillery fire, he successfully re-established communication. The Indian situation th
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• Punjabi Suba Agitation
  ...held fast to their positions despite intensely heavy shelling by Pakistan artillery. The Indian Air Force, under the command of the Sikh Air Chief Marshal, Arj
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• Maharaja Ranjit Singh
  ...r in numbers. He had also realized how crucial a well-drilled infantry and artillery were in modern warfare. In 1802, soon after his occupation of [[Amritsar]], ...tarted joining in large numbers. Ranjit Singh gave increased importance to artillery, which had, until his time, been limited to the use of [[zamburaks]] or swi
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• Sirhind
  ...the faujdar of [[Sirhind]], despatched some troops along with a couple of artillery pieces to reinforce the hill army attacking [[Anandpur]]. An inconclusive e
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• Nakai misl
  ...fort of Kot Kumaliah and could field 2,000 horsemen, [[Zamburak]]s, and [[artillery]].<ref>The Panjab chiefs, historical and biographical notices by Lepel Henr
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• Treaty Of Bhyrowal
  ...ew arrangement was described by John Marshman: An officer of the company's artillery became, in effect, the successor of Ranjit Singh.
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• Sikhs in World War 1
  ...as. But in addition to these organised forces no less than 20 batteries of artillery and 32 battalions of British infantry, 1,000 strong and more were sent to E ...high ground near the beach and immediately found working parties to unload artillery and stores and construct roads at "V" and "W" Beaches.
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• Operation Blue Star
  ...and children, were also killed in the operation which saw the use of heavy artillery, rockets and tanks being employed, as well. More than 700 soldiers of the .... The tops of these towers were blasted off by artillery fire. The use of artillery in the dense city of Amritsar prooved very costly, especially in human live
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• Dal Khalsa
  ...its total estimated strength of 70,000, essentially consisted of cavalry; artillery and infantry elements were almost unknown to it.
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• Ahmad Shah Durrani
  ...entually Mughal forces were sent from Delhi to resist his advance. Lacking artillery and vastly outnumbered, he was defeated at Manupur in March 1748 by Mu'in-u ...battle was joined on the 11th. Ahmed Shah had only 30,000 horsemen, and no artillery. But during the battle, a force of 5,000 Pathans of Qasoor under Jamal Khan
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• Hari Singh Nalwa and the subjugation of north-western frontier
  ...gh malwai. In this fort were stationed 300 infantry men, 100 horsemen, 10 artillery men, two big and two small cannon. (33) ...names as Shankargarh. There were stationed 500 infantry, 300 cavalry, 35 artillery men, two big and 10 small cannons. It was placed under lehna Singh Sandhan
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• Battle of Sirhind
  ...elephants, mounted gunnery, archers, lancers and swordsmen. Banda had no artillery, no elephants and not even sufficient supply of good horses. He and his sol First, the [[Muslim]] artillery caused a heavy destruction of lives. Realizing this disadvantage, the soldi
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• Maharaja Ranjit Singh liberates Jammu
  ...00gardiala Soldier and traveller; memoirs of Alexander Gardner, Colonel of Artillery in the service of Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1898)Author: Gardner, Alexander Ha
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• Origins of non-violence movement in India
  ...gs of the bystanders found vent in a sort of loud gasp like Ah-h! Wrote an artillery officer who was required to supervise such an execution. "Then many of them
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• Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh
  ...apanese came so close that the Imphal airfields were within range of enemy artillery fire. Maximum air effort was put in by No. 1 Squadron, flying 412 sorties i
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• Maharaja Ranjit Singh folklore
  ...00gardiala Soldier and traveller; memoirs of Alexander Gardner, Colonel of Artillery in the service of Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1898)Author: Gardner, Alexander Ha
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• Afghan - Sikh Relation(1748 - 1849)
  ...o invest Jam rud. The Sikh garrison there had only 600 men and a few light artillery pieces. The Afghans besieged the fort and cut off its water supply while a
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• Second battle of Chamkaur Sahib
  ...e small fort used by the Sikhs was surrounded by 700 cavalry equipped with artillery. In the ''History Of The Sikhs'': Hari Ram Gupta, pp.293. </ref><ref>.. ...rger because of the uncounted infantry soldiers of the army that drove the artillery. Mughals specialized in cavalry but this was a siege. Hence we expect Mugha
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• Baba Deep Singh Ji
  ...ib. Following orders, in 1757, Jahan Khan proceeded to Amritsar with heavy artillery. Many Sikhs died trying to defend Sri Harimander Sahib but unfortunately th
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• Babar
  Employing something never seen before in India—gun carts, moveable artillery, and superior cavalry tactics, Babur achieved a resounding victory. A year
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• Ibratnamah
  ...mraj's father, Brindaban, was a peshadast or advance guard in the imperial artillery and his ancestors had served the Mughals for three generations. Kamraj hims
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• Maharaja Gulab Singh
  ...nse of the fort was in the hands of Gulab Singh. According to his European artillery commander Alexander Gardner:
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• Lahore Darbar
  ...tor and judge, and Claude Auguste Court, "the architect of Lahore Darbar's artillery." However, Maharaja Ranjit Singh kept the Europeans under strict control an
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• Sikh sacrifice in Belgium
  ! Artillery ...itish troops were by far in the minority, had little ammunition and sparse artillery support, so it was obvious that it would be very hard to stand to. Two comp
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• Sardar Sham Singh Attariwala
  ...with 1721 wounded; the Sikhs lost about 2000 men and another 73 pieces of artillery.
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• Ghadar Movement
  ..., 23 Cavalry, 128 Pioneers, Malaya State Guides,23 Mountain Battery, 24Jat Artillery, 15 Cancers, 22 Mountain Battery,130 Baluch and 21 Punjabi did come out in
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• Fall of Mirpur
  ...me the final blow when a full battalion of the enemy strongly supported by artillery and 3" Mortar fire launched an attack on the south western part of the city
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• Maharaja Sher Singh
  ...own arms. The Maharani, however chose to fight. For two days, Sher Singh's artillery shelled the fort, but with little effect. On the evening of 17 January 1841
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• Maharani Jind Kaur
  ...was dismissed with an annuity of Rs 1,50,00O and "an officer of Company's artillery became, in effect, the successor to Ranjit Singh"
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• Sikhs in Indian Air force
  ...ngst other things, that "Indians be made eligible for commissioning in the Artillery Engineers, Signal, Tank and Air arms of the Army in India" . ...ember 1929, the highest-scoring candidate (Prem Singh Gyani) opted for the Artillery while those topping the list for the Royal Air Force College at Cranwell we
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• Sikh bravery
  ...f 13th Frontier Force Rifles and Subadar Major Umrao Singh of Royal Indian Artillery.
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• Battles by Guru Gobind Singh
  ...ial armies approaching in countless numbers, Guru Gobind Singh ordered his artillery men to light their fuses : and discharge their cannons. The battle raged wi ...he hostile army at the thickest spot. The enemy made a charge to seize the artillery, but were quickly restrained by the fatal accuracy with which the Sikhs ser
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• Sikhs in the Eyes of Others
  ...s, but other Sikh soldiers then destroyed our tanks with the help of their artillery. Fighting with great bravery they kept on marching forward and thus our arm
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• Misl
  ...h its total estimated strength of 70,000 essentially consisted of cavalry; artillery and infantry elements were almost non-existent. ...g and halters. On the march the blankets were put beneath the saddle. Both artillery and infantry were practically unknown to the misls. Their armies were unenc
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• Origin of non violence
  ...s of the bystanders found vent in a sort of loud gasp like ah-h!' wrote an artillery officer who was required to supervise such an execution. Then many of them
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• Menin Gate and the Sikhs
  ...itish troops were by far in the minority, had little ammunition and sparse artillery support, so it was obvious that it would be very hard to stand to. Two comp ...victims were again British, Sikhs, Pathans, French and Algerians. Canadian artillery were backed by the Sikh troops.
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• Punjab Suba Movement
  ...held fast to their positions despite intensely heavy shelling by Pakistan artillery. The Indian Air Force, under the command of Sikh Air Chief Marshal, Arjan S
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• Sikh history
  ...000 men with cannons and elephants. Banda Singh had a smaller army with no artillery. But Banda Singh's army had something which other side lacked. They were re
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• Gadar Movement
  ..., 23 Cavalry, 128 Pioneers, Malaya State Guides,23 Mountain Battery, 24Jat Artillery, 15 Cancers, 22 Mountain Battery,130 Baluch and 21 Punjabi did come out in
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• Operation Blue Star: Detailed account
  Why did the government have to use tanks and heavy artillery to drive out a few Sikhs? The truth is, it was a big plan of the Hindu gove
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• Operation Blue Star: News reports
  Indian Army units had used heavy artillery against the terrorist militia, led by the separatist preacher Jarnail Singh
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• Mughal
  ...na, about ninety kilometers north of Delhi). Employing gun carts, moveable artillery, and superior cavalry tactics, Babur achieved a resounding victory. A year
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• Lama Sikhs
  ...to move to the place and a key location point was planned. Accordingly an artillery field firing range was also proposed. A company of Bengal Engineers, compri
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• History of Punjab
  ...y armed with only spears and muskets. The Afghans were equipped with heavy artillery. Ranjit Singh foresaw a strong, united fight against the invaders as he cam ...thin stretch of land. In 1971 again, fierce tank battles, air battles and artillery assaults tore away this thin stretch of land.
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• Sikhs in World War II
  ...10,000 ammunition laden oxen. For weeks the belligerents sparred in bloody artillery duels interrupted only by hand to hand skirmishes and bayonet attacks. Fina ...he possess an air supply such as ours. In the plain itself Slim had massed artillery, armour, and infantry to receive the invaders. He had stocked it up with fo
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• Hari Singh Nalwa
  ...hanistan. Sardar got built a small port which was quite impregnable to the artillery fire and could hold on for several weeks of pounding. The Dost Mohammad Kha
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• Arain people
  *'''Mian Qadir Buksh Nadir''' - Artillery Commander, author of, "Muftah-ul-Qila" (Persian text book on science of gun
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• Khalsa
  ...ar army of Punjab was assessed by Sir Lepel Griffin at 29000 men, with 192 artillery guns. The irregular levies were estimated at a similar number. <ref name=Pe
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• Banda Singh Bahadur
  ...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
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• Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon
  .... This camp was the Regimental Centre of the Hong Kong and Singapore Royal Artillery.
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• Sikh History June
  ...Temple]] Complex continued as the Sri Akal Takhat was attacked with heavy artillery and tanks.
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• Akal Takhat , Background
  ...his stables, three hundred Risaldari (mounted soldiers/cavalry) and sixty artillery men were always in his service." This was an account of only the first cor
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• Akali Phula Singh
  ...tribal ghazis by a small but swift-running stream, the Landai. The Khalsa Artillery, led by Mian Ghausa bypassed the tribesmen, and reached the bank of the La
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• Shaheed Jathedar Harminder Singh Nihang
  This added to his artillery being fed into various districts. He sold his own property and belongings t
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• CommonWealth War Martyers
  DALIP SINGH, Driver, 21157. 2 Field Regt. Royal Indian Artillery. 19th November 1943. Age 20. Son of Hazara Singh and Dhanwanti, of Janglian BUDHPAL SINGH, Gunner, 108733. 4 Mahratta Anti-Tank Regt. Royal Indian Artillery. 4th January 1944. Age 26. Son of Jahan Singh; husband of Maharani Bhagwati
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• Mohyal
  * Maj Gen SK Bali (Artillery) - 2000, VSM (Vishisht Seva Medal), then Brigadier [http://www.tribuneindia
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• A Kashmiri Mystery, The Chittisinghpora Massacre
  ...es eyeball to eyeball across a disputed cease-fire line. Daily barrages of artillery fire. A guerrilla war engineered by one, whittling away the patience of the
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• Chittisinghpura Massacre
  ...es eyeball to eyeball across a disputed cease-fire line. Daily barrages of artillery fire. A guerrilla war engineered by one, whittling away the patience of the
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• Jatt
  :Field Artillery (384 Guns)
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• The Sikhs in History, Book Two, by Sangat Singh
  ...s stables and always entertained three hundred horsemen and sixty gunners (artillery men).”
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