1000 Sikh Battles That Make You Proud To Be Sikh

[militan4evabains]

Keep adding to the list guys!! And also add wars during Sikh Gurus times, since i'm not that good in history of during the times of the Gurus...

1. Saragarhi Battle - 21 Sikhs in British Armed Forces against 10,000 Tribal Afghan Army

2. Operation Blue Star - 237 Khalsa Sikhs with limited weapons against 100,000 Hind Army with modern weapons

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i don't think it was 237 sikhs vs 100 000 indian soilders not even close but the indian army did use tanks.

Shaheed Bhai Jugraj Singh Khalsa Toofaan jee in 1990

i can't believe no ones knws about the BABBAER AKAALI LEHAR During British raj and shaheed sardar kishan singh gharahraj

[guptveer1469]

It was my brother. 237. My father was in the movement and close to Shaheed Talwinder Singh Ji. My father noted many things down in notebooks. And it was 237 Fighting Singhs and 207 got martyred. Allmost all Babbars escaped except the first Shaheed in the battle: Shaheed Mengha Singh Babbar.

And Singhs killed 3700 because my father 'claims' to have seen a newspaper reporting 3700 Hind Army being killed.

[guptveer1469]

Behenji, we are talking about Sikh BATTLES not Sikh Shaheeds... But yes, i dont know much about them... Anyways, how r u behenji?

[Mehtab Singh]

behenji?????????

its bhenji or panji

hindi bolli janna sunnyaaa

[Menu Ke Patha]

Behenji, we are talking about Sikh BATTLES not Sikh Shaheeds... But yes, i dont know much about them... Anyways, how r u behenji?

paaji this a wkd thread started bout sikh battles..abs amazinn.. pls dnt start guppyingg init plss

nd gurmukhoo ADD MOREEE MAN!!!!

if someone can get the details of a battle i read bout where..few singhs vs indian army.. fink it was a khet..erm..cnt memba details but was amazin..the officer said add the end if we had a handful of singhs like thoose to fite we wdunt need an army? (sumfik like that..not 100% correct)

bhul chuk maaf

vaheguroo jee ka khalsa

vaheguroo jee kee fatehh

[guptveer1469]

lol at mehtab singh - influence of bollywood u see

and menu ke patha bhaji, i wil not start guppying.. and the battle you are talking/asking about is:

14. Battle of Moujiya - 8 Babbar Khalsa's brave Singhs fought against Hind Army of couple hundreds. Many Hind Army soldiers were killed. 3 were martyred from the Babbar Khalsa Those were: Shaheed Khem Singh Babbar, Shaheed Paramjeet Singh Babbar and Shaheed Gurmail Singh Babbar

[lsingh]

Sunny Singh.. You may want to add this little info to Battle of Saragarhi: "The Battle at Saragarhi is one of eight stories of collective bravery published by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). It has been mentioned as one of the five most significant events of its kind in the world which includes the Battle of Thermopylae associated with the heroic stand of a small Greek force against the mighty Persian Army of Xerxes I in 480 B.C."

Battle of Moodhke - British troops and Indian troops of the Bengal Presidency against Sikhs of the Khalsa, the army of the Punjab. A British and Bengal army of 12,000 troops and 42 guns against a Sikh army of 10,000 cavalry, 4,000 infantry and 22 guns.

Battle of Aliwal - British troops and Indian troops of the Bengal Presidency against Sikhs of the Khalsa, the army of the Punjab. The British and Bengali army of 12,000 men and 30 guns against the Sikh army of 30,000 men and 67 guns.

Battle of Ferozeshah - British troops and Indian troops of the Bengal Presidency against Sikhs of the Khalsa, the army of the Punjab. A British and Bengal army of 18,000 men, 63 guns and 2 Howitzers against a Sikh army initially of Lal Singh’s force, then joined by Tej Singh’s troops from Ferozepore of 30,000 men and 150 guns (including many heavy calibre). The Sikh army contained a force of religious group called the Akalis.

Battle of Gujrat - British troops and Bengal, Bombay Armies of the British East India Company against Sikhs of the Khalsa, the army of the Punjab. A British and Bengali army of 24,000 & over 100 guns against a Sikh army of 20,000 (1,500 Afghans) and 60 guns.

Battle of Sobraon - British troops and Indian troops of the Bengal Presidency against Sikhs of the Khalsa, the army of the Punjab. A British and Bengali army of 15,000 men and 108 guns against a Sikh army of 40,000 men and 67 guns.

Battle of Chillianwala - British troops against Sikhs of the Khalsa, the army of the Punjab. A British army of 16,000 British and 66 guns against Sikh army of 23,000 men and 60 guns.

The British greatly exaggerated the size of the Sikh Army to make out that they defeated an army of superior numbers. Only the Sikh and Punjabi Muslim troops fought against the British, the Dogras and Pathans of the Punjab army did not fight or turned traitors.

At Moodkhe the Sikh force was 2,000 infantry and about 6,000 cavalry it was the advance guard of the main army. At Ferozeshah the traitor Brahmin Generals Lal Singh and Tej Singh seperated the cavalry from the infantry so only about 10,000 Sikhs took part.

At Aliwal only the elite Sikh Special Brigade fought numbering about 4,000 Sikhs the Dogras ran away when the British approached.

At Sobroan the Sikh force of 10,000 regulars was suplemented by a similar number of volunteers

, the British had arranged with Tej Singh for the Dogras to give way when they attacked exposing the Sikh positions

After the First Sikh War the Sikh army was reduced to 12,000 by the treaty with Britain so not more than 10,000 could have taken part in battles.

Considering the small numbers of Sikhs and being led by traitors in the First Sikh war the British said that they were the hardest fought battles ever in Asia

[Azaad]

India-Pakistan War 1971

A number of Sikh battalions fought during the 1971 war, most of them on the Western Front. 8 Sikh were in the Uri sector and 9 Sikh in the nearby Tangdhar sector. Two companies of 9 Sikh attacked and captured Thanda Pani and Kaiyan on 5 December night. The battalion then captured some more positions. At one stage they had advanced so rapidly that they went beyond artillery range. When the Sikhs came under Pakistani fire, they manhandled a medium gun over the mountains to take on the enemy by direct fire. On 14 December, 9 Sikh then cleared the heights

dominating Naukot.

2 Sikh were in the Lahore sector and part of the battalion was defending the Ranian Post , which the Pakistanis seemed determined to capture. They attacked the post repeatedly on 5th, 6th, 7th and 9th December, but each time they were beaten back. At the start of the war the Pakistanis had managed to capture the village of Pulkanjri and had sited 12 BMG's and some 3.5 inch rocket launchers around it. On December 17th and 18th, 2 Sikh attacked and recaptured the Pulkanjri village. During this attack L/Naik Shangara Singh displayed conspicuous gallantry in clearing two machinegun posts which were holding the attack up. Shangara Singh dashed through a minefield and hurled a grenade at one of the post. He then charged the second gun and leaping over the loophole he snatched the gun from its occupants. As he stood with the gun in his hands he received a fatal burst in his abdomen and fell to the ground with the gun still in his hand. He was awarded a posthumous Maha Vir Chakra. N/ Sub. Gian Singh received a posthumous Vir Chakra. The Pakistanis tried to recapture the Pulkanjri village using a company of 43 Punjab and two companies of 15 Punjab. The Sikhs stood firm and inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy's 15 Punjab. In a local counter attack they captured 1 officer and 8 OR's of 43 Punjab and 4 OR's of 15 Punjab. 19 Sikh was in the Ajnala area and captured the border post Budhai Chima on the night of December 5/6.

10 Sikh was in Rajasthan along the Nayachor axis. On December 11, they were part of a brigade attack along with 2 Mahar and 10 Sikh LI to capture Parbat Ali a feature which dominated both the main road and railway line to Nayachor and it was turned into a formidable defensive position by the enemy. In a grim battle working with bayonets and going from trench to trench the feature was cleared by the morning of 13 December. 10 Sikh won 6 Vir Chakras (Major Amrik Singh, Sub.Gurcharn Singh (posth.), Naik Gurjant Singh (posth.), L/Naik Harbhajan Singh, Sep. Mohan Singh) and 3 Sena Medals along with the battle honour Parbat Ali . 4 Sikh fought in the Eastern sector on the Jessore front. The battalion cleared the village of Burinda, which then opened the road to Jessore. The battalion then continued the advance to Khulna and on December 16, attackedShyamganj and captured it. Naik Mohinder Singh won a posthumous Vir Chakra and the battalion received the battle honour Siramani .

[Azaad]

On 10 April 1921 near Haidari Kach, North West Frontier, India, Sepoy Ishar Singh was No. 1 of a Lewis gun section. Early in the fighting he was severely wounded, all the officers and havildars of his company became casualties and his Lewis gun was seized. He recovered the gun and went into action again although his wound was bleeding profusely, but when ordered to have it dressed, he went instead to help the medical officer, carrying water to the wounded, taking a rifle and helping to keep down enemy fire and acting as a shield while the medical officer was dressing a wound. It was nearly three hours before he submitted to being evacuated. Later achieved rank of Captain.

Captain Ishar Singh was the first Sikh soldier to win a Victoria Cross, the highest award for valour in the British Empire

[guptveer1469]

lsingh, thx for the facts, i'll try to edit them...