Back Chillianwalan taistelu Finnish Battaglia di Chillianwala Italian ਚੇਲੀਆਂਵਾਲਾ ਦੀ ਲੜਾਈ Punjabi Bitwa pod Chillianwala Polish چیلیاں والا دی لڑائی PNB Сражение при Чиллианвале Russian Slaget vid Chillianwala Swedish
| Battle of Chillianwala | |||||||
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| Part of the Second Anglo-Sikh war | |||||||
 A c. 1849 painting of the battle by Charles Becher Young | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United Kingdom  East India Company |
 Sikh Empire | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Sir Hugh Gough | Sher Singh Attariwalla | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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15,000[1] 100 guns |
10,000[2]–20,000[3] 60 guns | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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2,512 (~1,512 Indian, ~1,000 British)[4] 6 guns lost[3] | 4,000[5] | ||||||
The Battle of Chillianwala was fought in January 1849 during the Second Anglo-Sikh war in the Chillianwala region (Mandi Bahauddin) of Punjab,[5] now part of Pakistan. The battle was one of the bloodiest fought by the British East India Company. Both armies held their positions at the end of the battle and both sides claimed victory.[6] The battle was a strategic check to immediate British ambitions in India and a shock to British military prestige.[7]
- ^ Sadler, p.44
- ^ Singh, Patwant; Rai, Jyoti M. (2008). Empire of the Sikhs: The Life and Times of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Peter Owen. p. 257. ISBN 978-0-7206-1323-0.
- ^ a b Roy, Kaushik (2011). War, Culture, and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740–1849. Routledge. pp. 161–162. ISBN 978-0-415-58767-9.
- ^ Farwell, p.58
- ^ a b . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 161–162.
- ^ Heath, p.42
- ^ Major A. H. Amin (retd.) Orbat.com Archived 7 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine