Battlefield
Chillianwala
ਚਿੱਲਿਆਂਵਾਲਾچیلیاں والا
Bloody battle of January 1849 near the Jhelum, which caused a storm in Britain over its losses.
Chillianwala is a village near the Jhelum in Mandi Bahauddin district. On 13 January 1849 the Sikhs under Sher Singh Attariwala fought the British to a standstill in the jungle here.
The British lost some 2,400 men and four colours. A British obelisk and a cemetery mark the battlefield.
Local people still call the area the field of the battle.
