Saragarhi Day (12 September 1897)

[Inqhilab]

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Details of the Battle of Saragarhi are considered fairly accurate, due to Gurmukh Singh signalling events to Fort Lockhart as they occurred.

• Around 9:00am, around 10,000 Afghans reach the signaling post at Saragarhi.
• Sardar Gurmukh Singh signals to Col. Haughton, situated in Fort Lockhart, that they are under attack.
• Colonel Haughton states he cannot send immediate help to Saragarhi.
• The soldiers decide to fight to the last to prevent the enemy from reaching the forts.
• Bhagwan Singh becomes the first injured and Lal Singh is seriously wounded.
• Soldiers Lal Singh and Jiwa Singh reportedly carry the dead body of Bhagwan Singh back to the inner layer of the post.
• The enemy breaks a portion of the wall of the picket.
• Colonel Haughton signals that he has estimated between 10,000 and 14,000 Pashtuns attacking Saragarhi.
• The leaders of the Afghan forces reportedly make promises to the soldiers to entice them to surrender.
• Reportedly two determined attempts are made to rush open the gate, but are unsuccessful.
• Later, the wall is breached.
• Thereafter, some of the fiercest hand-to-hand fighting occurs.
• In an act of outstanding bravery, Ishar Singh orders his men to fall back into the inner layer, whilst he remains to fight. However, this is breached and all but one of the defending soldiers are killed, along with many of the Pashtuns.
• Gurmukh Singh, who communicated the battle with Col. Haughton, was the last Sikh defender. He is stated to have killed 20 Afghans, the Pashtuns having to set fire to the post to kill him. As he was dying he was said to have yelled repeatedly the Sikh battle-cry "Bole So Nihal, Sat Sri Akal" (Victory belongs to those who recite the name of God with a true heart).

 

[GR!FF!N]

21 sikhs vs 10000-14000 Afghans and the casualty was 21 against (180-800)..damn...

 

[Indo-guy]

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Details of the Battle of Saragarhi are considered fairly accurate, due to Gurmukh Singh signalling events to Fort Lockhart as they occurred.

• Around 9:00am, around 10,000 Afghans reach the signaling post at Saragarhi.
• Sardar Gurmukh Singh signals to Col. Haughton, situated in Fort Lockhart, that they are under attack.
• Colonel Haughton states he cannot send immediate help to Saragarhi.
• The soldiers decide to fight to the last to prevent the enemy from reaching the forts.
• Bhagwan Singh becomes the first injured and Lal Singh is seriously wounded.
• Soldiers Lal Singh and Jiwa Singh reportedly carry the dead body of Bhagwan Singh back to the inner layer of the post.
• The enemy breaks a portion of the wall of the picket.
• Colonel Haughton signals that he has estimated between 10,000 and 14,000 Pashtuns attacking Saragarhi.
• The leaders of the Afghan forces reportedly make promises to the soldiers to entice them to surrender.
• Reportedly two determined attempts are made to rush open the gate, but are unsuccessful.
• Later, the wall is breached.
• Thereafter, some of the fiercest hand-to-hand fighting occurs.
• In an act of outstanding bravery, Ishar Singh orders his men to fall back into the inner layer, whilst he remains to fight. However, this is breached and all but one of the defending soldiers are killed, along with many of the Pashtuns.
• Gurmukh Singh, who communicated the battle with Col. Haughton, was the last Sikh defender. He is stated to have killed 20 Afghans, the Pashtuns having to set fire to the post to kill him. As he was dying he was said to have yelled repeatedly the Sikh battle-cry "Bole So Nihal, Sat Sri Akal" (Victory belongs to those who recite the name of God with a true heart).

Amazing ....I did not know this glorious chapter of our history ....and I feel ashamed of that

Thanks for posting !!!

 

[confound thinker]

This should be made into a movie...Like 300....

 

[Abingdonboy]

This should be made into a movie...Like 300....

Agreed- that's be epic! I thought Sanjay Dutt was working on it but now he's in prison so.....

 

[SRP]

Agreed- that's be epic! I thought Sanjay Dutt was working on it but now he's in prison so.....

Our Nana Patekar is there.

 

[Abingdonboy]

 

[he-man]

here

The contingent of the twenty-one Sikhs from the 36th Sikhs was led by Havildar Ishar Singh. They all chose to fight to the death. The battle is not well known outside military academia, but is "considered by some military historians as one of history's great last-stands".[9] Sikh military personnel and Sikh civilians commemorate the battle every year on 12 September, as Saragarhi Day.

The British and Indian armies’ polo teams also commemorate the battle annually by holding the Saragarhi Challenge Cup


All the 21 Sikh non-commissioned officers and soldiers of other ranks who laid down their lives in the Battle of Saragarhi were posthumously awarded the Indian Order of Merit, the highest gallantry award of that time, which an Indian soldier could receive by the hands of the British crown, the corresponding gallantry award being Victoria Cross. This award is equivalent to today's Param Vir Chakra awarded by the President of India.

 

[he-man]

nai reesa nai reesa mere desh punjab diyaan

 

[Imran Khan]

@Ahmad Shah Abdali @Pak-one @Sher Malang @A-Team

 

[he-man]

@Ahmad Shah Abdali @Pak-one @Sher Malang @A-Team

kyu bhai??
what have we done that u are calling ur lashkars

Our Nana Patekar is there.

this must be made into a high budget movie man

 

[he-man]

Bhai koi pakistani to comment kare??

 

[Marwat Khan Lodhi]

21 sikhs vs 10000-14000 Afghans and the casualty was 21 against (180-800)..damn...

That sikh in the fort was exaggerating, even in the modern times a fighting lashkar of a pashtun tribe never exceeds 10000. The population of afridi tribe in that time was in thousands, how could they and muster up such large force of 14000 and that for a small fort when rebellion was in entire frontier?. British authors say that largest fighting force among pashtuns was that of mehsuds, 3 thousands strong in early 1900. The entire population of FATA in 1947 was half million. How many they can be in 1890?
Sikhs tends to lie and exaggerate. Their accounts feel like fantasy fictions. Moreover there is not pride in dying for foriegn imperialists

 

[he-man]

That sikh in the fort was exaggerating, even in the modern times a fighting lashkar of a pashtun tribe never exceeds 10000. The population of afridi tribe in that time was in thousands, how could they and muster up such large force of 14000 and that for a small fort when rebellion was in entire frontier?. British authors say that largest fighting force among pashtuns was that of mehsuds, 3 thousands strong in early 1900. The entire population of FATA in 1947 was half million. How many they can be in 1890?
Sikhs tends to lie and exaggerate. Their accounts feel like fantasy fictions. Moreover there is not pride in dying for foriegn imperialists

It is a well documented account,,,,,as usual u refuse to believe anything

 

[Marwat Khan Lodhi]

kyu bhai??
what have we done that u are calling ur lashkars



this must be made into a high budget movie man

Actually as a punjabi he is proud of this achievement of sikhs over pashtuns. He tagged pashtun members in a taunting way that look sikhs humiliated pashtuns big time.