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First Anglo-Sikh war: British Empire: Sikh Empire: British victory: Battle of Baddowal 21 January 1846 First Anglo-Sikh war: Sikh Empire: British Empire: Sikh victory: Many Sikh soldiers crossed Satluj after being defeated at Mudki and Ferozeshah. When Harry Smith marched to Dharmkot to relieve Ludhiana, their rear was attacked by Sikhs under ...
The second Anglo-Sikh war was a military conflict between the Sikh Empire and the East India Company which took place from 1848 to 1849. It resulted in the fall of the Sikh Empire, and the annexation of the Punjab and what subsequently became the North-West Frontier Province , by the East India Company.
In the 2019 movie 1917, Nabhaan Rizwan plays Sepoy Jondalar, a Sikh soldier in the Indian Army. In the 1996 movie The English Patient, Naveen Andrews plays Kirpal (Kip) Singh, a Sikh soldier who is a sapper, or bomb disposal expert, and works for the British Army in World War II. Kip is from Punjab, India, and volunteers for the British ...
The Mughal–Sikh wars were a series of conflicts that took place between the Mughal Empire and the Sikhs states of Punjab from 1621 (Battle of Rohilla) to 1783 (Battle of Delhi). [ citation needed ] Background
13 July 1813: Battle of Attock, the Sikh Empire's first significant victory over the Durrani Empire. – 2 March June 1818: Battle of Multan , the 2nd battle in the Afghan–Sikh wars . 3 July 1819: Battle of Shopian The charge of the British 16th Lancers at Aliwal on 28 January 1846, during the First Anglo-Sikh War
On the east of his realm Gulab Singh extended Sikh authority in the Himalayas until stopped by the Qing Empire in the Sino-Sikh war (1841–1842). After the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845–46), Punjab effectively ceased to be an independent state. The British Empire annexed the Sikh Empire following the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848–49).
The first Anglo-Sikh war was fought between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company in 1845 and 1846 around the Ferozepur district of Punjab.It resulted in the defeat and partial subjugation of the Sikh empire and cession of Jammu & Kashmir as a separate princely state under British suzerainty.
Multan had been captured and incorporated into the Sikh Empire of Ranjit Singh in 1818. In 1845, although the population was almost half Muslim, it was ruled by a Hindu vassal, Dewan Mulraj. 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 ...