24,000 men (including Bengal and Maratha troops) Over 96 field guns 67 siege guns[1]
50-60,000 men 60 guns[1]
Casualties and losses
96 killed 710 wounded[1]
Unknown[1]
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Ramnagar
Chillianwala
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Gujrat
Location of Gujrat City in Punjab.
The Battle of Gujrat was a decisive battle in the Second Anglo-Sikh War, fought on 21 February 1849, between the forces of the East India Company, and a Sikh army in rebellion against the company's control of the Sikh Empire, represented by the child Maharaja Duleep Singh who was in British custody in Lahore.[2] The Sikh army was defeated by the British regular and Bengal Army forces of the British East India Company. After it capitulated a few days later, the Punjab was annexed to the East India Company's territories and Duleep Singh was deposed.
^ abcdRoy 2008, p. 298.
^"Imperial Gazetteer2 of India, Volume 12, page 374 -- Imperial Gazetteer of India -- Digital South Asia Library". dsal.uchicago.edu.
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