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	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Weapons and Warfare (B)
		The Battle of Algiers was a bitter conflict in Algiers from 1954 to 1962 between the Algerian nationalist population and the French colonial army and French settlers.
		The Battle of Culloden was a defeat in 1746 of the Jacobite rebel army of the British prince Charles Edward Stuart (the 'Young Pretender') by the Duke of Cumberland on a stretch of moorland in Inverness-shire, Scotland.
		The Battle of Navas de Tolosa was fought in 1212 between Yakub Almansur of the Almohades and the kings of Aragon, Castile and Navarre.
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	Probert Encyclopaedia: Battles (1800-1849) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Battle of Borodino was fought on September the 7th, 1812, during the Napoleonic Wars, between a French army under Napoleon and a Russian army under Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov in and around the village of Borodino, about 110 km south-west of Moscow.
		The Battle of Busaco was fought between English and Portuguese armies under the Duke of Wellington and the French under Marshal Andre Massena on the 27th of September 1810 during the Peninsular War.
		The Battle of Junin was an engagement of the Peruvian War of Independence, fought in the highlands near Lima on August the 6th 1824.
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	ROBERT CORNELIS NAPIER, 1ST BARON NAPIER OF MAGDALA - LoveToKnow Article on ROBERT CORNELIS NAPIER, 1ST BARON NAPIER OF ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At the battle of Ferozeshah on the 31st December he again had his horse shot under him, and, joining the 3ist Regiment on foot, was severely wounded in storming the entrenched Sikh camp.
		He was present at the battle of Sobraon on 10th February 1846, and in the advance to Lahore; was mentioned in despatches for his services in the campaign, and received a brevet majority.
		He then joined Lord Gough, took part, as commanding engineer of the right wing, in the battle of Gujrat in February 1849, accompanied Sir W. Gilbert in his pursuit of the Sikhs and Afghans, and was present at the passage of the Jhelum, the surrender of the Sikh army, and the surprise of Attock.
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	SIKH WARS - LoveToKnow Article on SIKH WARS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The battle opened with an artillery duel, in which the British guns, though inferior in weight, soon silenced the enemy, the 3rd Light Dragoons delivered a brilliant charge, and the infantry drove the enemy from position after position with great slaughter and the loss of seventeen gtins.
		The battle resulted in great loss to the European regiments, the 24th losing all its officers in a few minutes, while the total loss in killed and wounded amounted to 2338; but when darkness fell the British were in possession of the whole of the Sikh line.
		The battle began on the morning of the 21st of February with two and a half hours artillery fire, which was overwhelmingly in favor of the British.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SI/SIKH_WARS.htm (1775 words)

	:Gateway to Sikhism
		Both at Mudhki and Ferozeshah, where all the factors such as ground, weather and the state of the forces, were in their favour, concentrated attack would have won the Sikhs these battles; but Tej Singh ensured that such a concentration did not materialize.
		During the first part of the battle, the sardar, mounted on his white, mare, was everywhere present, rejoining the broken ranks of his soldiers and urging them on to fight like patriots, as true sons of the Khalsa, to die rather than turn their backs on the enemy.
		During the battles he always kept himself at the apex of the army (in the rear), pretending that he could thus have an eye on the whole front and that it was not his duty to go in front.
	www.allaboutsikhs.com /articles/valour_and_treachery.htm (8760 words)

	Ferozeshah
		It included the proposed deployment of forces for the attack and the cavalry charge, the position of the foot soldiers for accuracy of fire, the placement of guns, and finally the method of attack.
		This high honour is bestowed on you in commemoration of the gallant services rendered by your predecessors at the battle of Ferozeshah, the anniversary of which we celebrate today.
		The Wiltshire Regiment, The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment and the present day Regiment The Royal Gloucestershire Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment have all commemorated this battle in December, the size of which is dictated by the operational requirements of the day.
	history.farmersboys.com /ferozeshah1.htm (1850 words)

	SikhLionz.com: Anglo-Sikh War 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The battle continued with unabated fury till midnight (and came thereafter to be known as "Midnight Mudki").
		The battle of Ferozeshah is regarded as one of the most fiercely contested battles fought by the British in India.
		To check the enemy advance on Lahore, a large portion of the Sikh army was entrenched in a horse-shoe curve on the Sutlej near the village of Sabhraon, under the command of Tej Singh while the cavalry battalions and the dreaded ghorcharas under Lal Singh were a little higher up the river.
	www.sikhlionz.com /anglosikhwar1.htm (2621 words)

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		The battle began when the Scottish forces, numbering about 40,000 troops under the command of Robert Bruce, king of Scotland, intercepted an army of about 60,000 commanded by Edward II of England, which was en route to the relief of a besieged English stronghold at Stirling Castle.
		The Battle of Culloden was a defeat in 1746 of the Jacobite rebel army of the British prince Charles Edward Stuart (the 'Young Pretender') by the Duke of Cumberland on a stretch of moorland in Inverness‑shire, Scotland.
		The Battle of Inkerman was an infantry battle of the Crimean War fought on the 5th of November 1854 when the Russians attacked the British forces besieging Sebastopol and were repulsed.
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	BFA Newsletter - December 1994
		He had taken part in the battle of Mudki on 18 December and in the battle of Ferozeshah where he was killed in action on 21 December.
		An artillery duel was followed by an infantry battle and hand-to- hand fighting in which the British lost nearly 900 men, killed or wounded, but forced the Sikhs into a fighting retreat and captured 17 of their guns.
		It took two more battles before the First Sikh War was formally ended by a treaty at Lahore on 9 March 1846, but by that time our unfortunate kinsman had been two months in his grave and, we fear, forgotten by all but his next-of-kin back home.
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	2ND BATTALION OF THE RAJPUT REGIMENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The battle honour 'Leswaree' was conferred on the unit.Thereafter, the unit participated in numerous campaigns, the battles of Kalenjra, Kalunghar, Nahun, Rampore and Gwalior being the most prominent.
		The sixth battle honour -' Afghanistan 1870 - 80 ' was conferred on the unit during the second Afghan war.
		During the period 1972-1998, the unit was constantly deployed in combating militancy in the North East, Punjab and JandK.
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	this date in history - this month - December
		Their variety and beauty comes not only from his inventive genius and a close study of classical architecture, but also from pragmatism about the ruins: often the new church had the same outline as the pre-Fire building, or the tower was retained.
		The Battle of Dreux was fought between the Huguenots and the Catholics, beginning the French Wars of Religion.
		At the Battle of Wakefield, in England's Wars of the Roses, the Duke of York was defeated and killed by the Lancastrians.
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	Ferozeshah
		The Sikhs had been able to disengage under the cover of darkness early in the morning of 19th December and fell back on their main army which was camped around the village of Ferozeshah about halfway between Moodkee and Ferozepore.
		The delay was unfortunate as it was the shortest day of the year and the battle for Ferozeshah did not begin until four in the afternoon.
		The 31st Regiment was on the right of Sir Harry Smith’s division which had initially been held in reserve, and at first had to advance carefully to avoid the many casualties sustained by the troops ahead.
	www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk /reg_in_india/india23_1.html (520 words)

	Battle of Ferozeshah. Military print of the the Battle of Ferozeshah during the First Sikkh War, 22nd December ...
		Military print of the the Battle of Ferozeshah during the First Sikkh War, 22nd December 1845.
		Battle fought during the first Sikh War, by a force of 16,000 Anglo-Indian Troops under the command of General Sir Hugh Gough.
		This was one of the bloodiest battles in the east during the 19th century.
	www.military-art.com /var463.htm (783 words)

	Historical Sikh Events at Gateway to Sikhism:The First Anglo Sikh War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He also sent all his available transport at Mudki to speedily bring the European hilly troops to the scene of battle who were already on their way to Mudki.
		On the other hand, Tej Singh with a force of ten thousand under him, remained idle in the neighbourhood of the battle field absurdly pretending that he was guarding Ferozepur although Littler's force had left the place in broad day light.
		News came from the Governor General that our attack of yesterday had failed, that affairs were desperate, that all State papers were to be destroyed, and that if the morning attack failed, all would be over; this was kept secret by Mr.
	www.allaboutsikhs.com /events/aswar1_4.htm (740 words)

	SIKH WARS - Encyclopedia Britannica - SIKH WARS - JCSM's Study Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The battle opened with an artillery duel, in which the British guns, though inferior in weight, soon silenced the enemy, the 3rd Light Dragoons delivered a brilliant charge, and the infantry drove the enemy from position after position with great slaughter and the loss of seventeen guns.
		The British were exhausted with their sleepless night, the native troops were shaken, and a determined attack by this fresh army might have won the day; but Tej Singh, after a half-hearted attack, which was repulsed, marched away, whether from cowardice, incapacity or treason, and left the British masters of the position.
		The battle began on the morning of the 21st of February with two and a half hours' artillery fire, which was overwhelmingly in favour of the British.
	www.jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/SHA_SIV/SIKH_WARS.html (1884 words)

	battle of waterloo - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
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		Wellington won battle after battle by using his riflemen to repel the voltigeurs, posting his ranks of infantry behind the brow of a hill to...southern France in 1814, and finally at Waterloo in 1815.
		Battle of the Bogside; the Battle of the Bogside, 30 Years Ago This Week, Not Only Transformed Londonderry Forever, but Sparked off a Wind of Change That Swept through Northern Ireland.
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	Anglo Sikh War I
		During that "night of horrors," the commanderinchief acknowledged, "we were in a critical and perilous state." Counsels of retreat and surrender were raised and despair struck the British camp.
		To check the enemy advance on Lahore, a large portion of the Sikh army was entrenched in a horseshoe curve on the Sutlej near the village of Sabhraori, under the command ofTej Singh while the cavalry battalions and the dreaded ghorcharas under Lal Singh were a little higher up the river.
		The British casualties at Sabhraori were 2,403 killed; the Sikhs lost 3,125 men in the action and all their guns were either captured or abandoned in the river.
	www.sikhiwiki.org /index.php?title=Anglo_Sikh_War_I (2515 words)

	Battle of Ferozeshah, 21st/22nd December 1845 (India) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The British commander General Sir Hugh Gough was determined to attack so the British army started to advance by the time the battle started the light was failing and the battle continued throughout the night with the first assault being repulsed.
		Luckily for the British Singh saw the cavalry retiring and mistook it for an attack on his fallen and rear and hastily broke off the attack.
		With British casualties numbering nearly 1,800 and Sikh killed and wounded around 5,000 it was one of the most bitterly contested battles ever fought by the British in India.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/battles_ferozeshah.html (207 words)

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		Battle of Coronel - November 1914 of the coast of Chile in the South Pacific.
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	The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment (RGBW) - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1845 the 62nd Regiment was stationed in Madras and Bengal and took the field against the Sikhs in the first war against that nation.
		In the battle that of Ferozeshah, the Regiment played a noble part, losing more than half its effectives in killed and wounded, its losses being more then those of any other regiment engaged.
		The battle ended in one of the most brilliant victories standing to the credit of the British Army, 35,000 of the enemy with more than 100 guns and a strongly entrenched position, being attacked and routed by a British force of under 18,000 with 63 guns.
	www.rgbw.co.uk /History/history.htm (304 words)

	Battle of Ferozeshah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Sikh Army did not prevent the meeting of the two forces around its main defensive position centred around the village of Ferozeshah in the early morning of 21 December 1845.
		During one stage of the battle, orders were given by the Governor General, Lord Hardinge, who was present throughout the campaign, to destroy all state papers left at Mukdi should the Army be defeated.
		The next morning, the British attacked and were able to dislodge the remainder of the Sikh Army from the village.
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	SUTLEJ
		"Sacred to the memory of John Francis Egerton late Capt of the Bengal Artillery and Depy Asst Qr Master General of the Army who died at Ferozepore on the 23rd January 1846 from wounds received at the Battle of Ferozeshah on the 22nd December 1845.
		This tablet is erected by his brother officers as a mark of their admiration of his character as a soldier and as a token of their affection for him as a friend."
		Eldest son of Lord Fitzroy Somerset, born 6th May 1816 and died of wounds received at the Battle of Ferozeshah, Christmas day 1845.
	www.redcoat.info /Feroz.htm (1837 words)

	Untitled
		Raglan's decision to direct the battle from the crest of the Sapoune Heights was to result in two determining factors in the course of events.
		First and most crucial, although he had a magnificent panoramic overview of the whole battle field, from such a height the shape and contours of the ground were not evident; Causeway Heights and North and South Valleys appeared as an unbroken plain.
		Although the British were outnumbered by more than 2 to 1, as the chart of the Charge shows, they had the advantage of introducing fresh participants piecemeal.
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	List of battles 1801-1900
		1812 Battle of Aslanduz[?] Oct 31 The Russians defeat the Persian army of Abbas Mirza.
		1828 Battle of Praia Bay[?] August 28 - The Miguelite fleet in Portugal is defeated by the loyalists of Queen Maria in the Azores.
		1848 Battle of Ramnagar[?] Nov. 22 - British forces under Gough are repulsed by the Sikhs under Shere Singh in the Punjab.
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	This is Wiltshire \| CommuniGate \| ASSOCIATION AND BRANCH FUTURE EVENTS
		The battle was not commenced until late afternoon, and just as the British succeded, after sustaining great losses, in reaching the enemy's position, night came down and put an end to the fighting.
		Both forces stood off a little and bivouacked on the field of battle and renewed the fight with unbated vigour with the earliest light of dawn.
		This high honour is bestowed on you in commemoration of the gallant services rendered by your predecessors at the battle of Ferozeshah, the annivarsary of which we celebrate today.
	www.communigate.co.uk /wilts/paulfennell/page3.phtml (1078 words)

	Battle of Aliwal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A British force under the able leadership of Sir Harry Smith moved to deal with the threat that the Sikhs now presented to the British supply lines.
		The Battle of Aliwal witnessed a Sikh force consisting of approximately 7,000 cavalry and 17,000 infantry, half of which were regular troops, in a defensive formation with a river to its rear.
		Sir Henry Smith was able to direct well co-ordinated attacks using cavalry, artillery and infantry in such a manner resulting in the most decisive outcome for the British during that stage of the war.
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	COMMEMORATION OF THE BATTLE OF FEROZESHAH SUNDAY 12TH DECEMBER 2004 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		COMMEMORATION OF THE BATTLE OF FEROZESHAH SUNDAY 12TH DECEMBER 2004 1
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	www.glosters.org /Ferozeshah04.htm (103 words)

	Ferozeshah
		The Battle of Ferozeshah was commemorated each year by the Battalion in Minden.
		All those who took part will have a clear memory of the bitter German Winters, and not without a passing thought that December 21st was not a clever time to hold a battle or a parade.
		The following photographs cover some of the parades, and more will follow in the passage of time.
	history.farmersboys.com /Battle_Honours/ferozeshah.htm (147 words)

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