Misr Diwan Chand
Artillery commander who rose from clerk to general and led the storming of Multan in 1818 and the conquest of Kashmir in 1819.
Misr Diwan Chand was a Brahmin from Gondlanwala near Gujranwala who started as a clerk in the Lahore artillery and rose to become its commander.
He led the storming of Multan in 1818, breaching its walls with the great Zamzama gun and his own heavy artillery after a long siege, and the following year commanded the army that conquered Kashmir. Ranjit Singh gave him the title Zafar Jang, 'victorious in war'.
He died in 1825, regarded as one of the ablest commanders of the Sikh Empire.
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Sher-e-Punjab, the Lion of Punjab. United the misls into the Sikh Empire, ruled from Lahore for forty years and covered the Harmandir Sahib in gold.
Commander-in-chief of the Sikh army on the north-west frontier. Governed Kashmir and Peshawar and died holding Jamrud against the Afghans.