Battlefield
Ramnagar
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Cavalry clash on the Chenab in November 1848 at the start of the Second Anglo-Sikh War.
Ramnagar, originally Rasulnagar, is a town on the Chenab in Gujranwala district, renamed by Mahan Singh Sukerchakia after he took it.
In November 1848 a British cavalry charge here was repulsed by the Sikh guns on the far bank, in the opening battle of the Second Anglo-Sikh War.
It is now a small town in Pakistan.
People
Father of Ranjit Singh. Expanded the Sukerchakia lands from Gujranwala and died during a siege when Ranjit was twelve.
Commander of the Khalsa army in the Second Anglo-Sikh War, who fought the British to a standstill at Chillianwala before defeat at Gujrat.