Battle of Chushul
The counter-attack that relieved Leh and ended the Sino-Sikh war.
After their victory at To-yo, the Tibetans invaded Ladakh in 1842 and besieged Leh.
Gulab Singh sent a relief force under Diwan Hari Chand and Wazir Ratnu. In August 1842 they defeated the Tibetan army near Chushul, damming a stream to flood the Tibetan camp, and captured its generals.
The Treaty of Chushul, signed in September 1842, restored the old frontier between Ladakh and Tibet and is still cited in the boundary disputes between India and China.
Same era
Campaigns of the Kingdom of Lahore, 1799 – 1842
After a month of mining and assault, the Pathan principality of Kasur fell.
The Sikh Empire's first major victory over the Afghans, securing the fort at the Indus crossing.
Rain, hunger and cholera wrecked the first attempt on Kashmir. It took another five years to return.
After several earlier attempts, a large Sikh army breached the walls with the great Zamzama gun and Akali charges. The Nawab died with his sons.
Brought the Kashmir valley under Sikh rule after five centuries of Muslim rule.
A hard battle on the Kabul river that opened the Peshawar valley. The Nihang leader Akali Phula Singh fell leading the charge.
Syed Ahmad Barelvi's jihad movement against Sikh rule in the frontier hills ended when his force was caught at Balakot.
Sikh forces marched into Peshawar and ended its status as a tributary. Dost Mohammad Khan's attempts to retake it led to Jamrud.