The Battle of Chillianwala was fought in January 1849 during the Second Anglo-Sikh War in the Chillianwala region of Punjab, now part of modern-day Pakistan. The battle was one of the bloodiest fought by the British East India Company. Both armies held their positions at the end of the battle and both sides claimed victory. The battle was a strategic check to immediate British ambitions in India and a shock to British military prestige.
Battle of Chilianwala, 13 January 1849, oil on board by Lieutenant (later Colonel) Charles Becher Young (1816-1892), Bengal Engineers, c.1849
Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough (1779–1869), Oriental Club, Hanover Square, London.
Sher Singh Attariwalla
Picture of the plaque erected in St James Church Sialkot Cantonment by Sarah Pennycuick, widow of Brigadier John Pennycuick and mother of Alexander of 24th Regiment, both of whom died in Battle of Chillianwala on 13 January 1849.
The second Anglo-Sikh war was a military conflict between the Sikh Empire and the East India Company which took place from 1848 to 1849. It resulted in the fall of the Sikh Empire, and the annexation of the Punjab and what subsequently became the North-West Frontier Province, by the East India Company.
The Battle of Gujrat, the most decisive battle of the second Anglo-Sikh war
