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Historically, the terms "Gurkha" and "Gorkhali" were synonymous with "Nepali", which originates from the hill principality Gorkha Kingdom, from which the Kingdom of Nepal expanded under Prithvi Narayan Shah, who was the last ruler of the Gorkha Kingdom and first monarch of the Kingdom of Nepal.
Brigade of Gurkhas (est. 1815) — all units of the British Army composed of Nepalese Gurkha soldiers. They originally served in the British Indian Army as a military unit of the British Empire . Subcategories
The Gurkhas in their mad frenzy of their 'last fight' before death madly ran into the muzzles of the Sikh forces, unplanned. [13] After a month of starvation and bad conditions the Gurkhas made a charge onto the Ganesh Valley, [14] Sikhs conquered the Kangra Fort and fired their superior artillery onto the Gurkhas, massacring them in the ...
Ayo Gorkhali: A History of the Gurkhas is a 2020 book by Nepalese author Tim Gurung. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The book contains the history of Gurkhas . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Ayo Gorkhali: A History of the Gurkhas received positive feedback from critics.
The Gurkha forces were sent to Italy in May 1943, to prevent the Germans from advancing. Italy surrendered when the Allied troops invaded, but the German soldiers remained in the mountains of Italy. The Gurkhas reached Italy on 11 February 1944 as a part of the 4th Indian Division. They started an offensive on February 16 and 17.
A monument to the Nepalese Gurkha Soldier near the Ministry of Defence in London. The Gurkha Justice Campaign was a successful political campaign group in the United Kingdom that sought for Gurkhas who served in the British military to gain the same rights as their British and Commonwealth counterparts.
Dipprasad Pun, CGC (Nepali: दिपप्रसाद पुन) is a Nepalese sergeant of the Royal Gurkha Rifles (British Army), who was decorated with the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross for an act of bravery during the War in Afghanistan on the night of 17 September 2010.
The Sino-Nepalese War (Nepali: नेपाल-चीन युद्ध), also known as the Sino-Gorkha War and in Chinese as the campaign of Gorkha (Chinese: 廓爾喀之役), was a war fought between the Qing dynasty of China and the Kingdom of Nepal in the late 18th century following an invasion of Tibet by the Nepalese Gorkhas.