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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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Gurkha Contingent soldiers during the 117th IOC Session. The Gurkha Contingent (GC) is a line department of the Singapore Police Force (SPF) consisting primarily of Gurkhas from Nepal, who are meticulously recruited by the British Army under the purview of the Government of Singapore.
The Gurkha troops disguise themselves as farmers to make the impending battle a secret, and they get to the shores of the Trishuli River. [9] Upon getting to Khimchet, the troops faked making a canal from the river to a field, and the opponent did not understand the motive of these farmers. [9]