Qualla: Battle of Ramnagar https://qualla.com/battle-of-ramnagar en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:32 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/t/t/s/x/battle-of-ramnagar-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Ramnagar https://qualla.com/battle-of-ramnagar Battle of Ramnagar: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-ramnagar/ Photo credit The Oxford Geographical Institute, Public domain. Colonel William Havelock led his charge without orders. The 14th Light Dragoons thundered down the riverbank after retreating Sikh horsemen, and then the trap closed -- Sikh artillery opened up from concealed positions, and the cavalry that had appeared to flee wheeled around and struck. Havelock and his leading troopers were surrounded and cut down. When Brigadier Charles Robert Cureton galloped forward to order a retreat, a musket ball killed him too. It was 22 November 1848, and the British Empire had just been humiliated at the Chenab River crossing near Ramnagar by a Sikh army that had done everything right while the British had done almost everything wrong.

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]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/t/s/x/battle-of-ramnagar-wp/ttsx-battle-of-ramnagar-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Ramnagar: A War Born of Betrayal https://qualla.com/battle-of-ramnagar/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Second Anglo-Sikh War grew from the wreckage of the first. After the Sikh defeat in 1846, British commissioners and political agents had effectively taken control of the Punjab, using the Sikh Khalsa Army as their instrument while stripping it of autonomy. The Khalsa seethed ...

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]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/t/s/x/battle-of-ramnagar-wp/ttsx-battle-of-ramnagar-a-war-born-of-betrayal.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Ramnagar: The Chenab Trap https://qualla.com/battle-of-ramnagar/ Photo credit Not identified, Public domain. On 14 September 1848, Sher Singh made his choice and rebelled. Rather than joining forces with Mulraj at Multan, he moved north and began fortifying the crossings of the Chenab River. It was a shrewd decision. The Chenab in November was reduced to a narrow stream, but the wide ri...

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