Battle of Gujrat

Battle of Gujrat
	Part of the Second Anglo-Sikh War
Date	21 February 1849
Location	Gujrat, Sikh Empire (modern-day Pakistan)
Result	British victory
Belligerents
East India Company	Sikh Empire
Commanders and leaders
Hugh Gough	Raja Sher Singh Attariwalla
Strength
24,000 men (including Bengal and Maratha troops); Over 96 field guns; 67 siege guns;	35,000 men; 59 guns;
Casualties and losses
96 killed; 710 wounded	Unknown

The Battle of Gujrat was a decisive battle in the Second Anglo-Sikh War, fought on 21 February 1849, between the forces of the East India Company, and a Sikh army in rebellion against the company's control of the Sikh Empire, represented by the child Maharaja Duleep Singh who was in British custody in Lahore.^[3] The Sikh army was defeated by the British regular and Bengal Army forces of the British East India Company. After it capitulated a few days later, the Punjab was annexed to the East India Company's territories and Duleep Singh was deposed.

^ ^a ^b ^c Roy 2008, p. 298.
^ Roy, Kaushik (2011). War, Culture, and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740–1849. Routledge. pp. 162–163. ISBN 978-0-415-58767-9.
^ "Imperial Gazetteer2 of India, Volume 12, page 374 -- Imperial Gazetteer of India -- Digital South Asia Library". dsal.uchicago.edu.

[FOOTNOTERoy2008298-1] Roy 2008, p. 298.

[roy-2] Roy, Kaushik (2011). War, Culture, and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740–1849. Routledge. pp. 162–163. ISBN 978-0-415-58767-9.

[3] "Imperial Gazetteer2 of India, Volume 12, page 374 -- Imperial Gazetteer of India -- Digital South Asia Library". dsal.uchicago.edu.

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