Major-General Sir Robert Henry Sale was a British Army officer who commanded the garrison of Jalalabad during the First Afghan War and was killed in action during the First Anglo-Sikh War.
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Robert and Florentia Sale.
Citadel and Fortress of Ghuznee with its Minarets, a lithograph made from a sketch by Sale
The death of General Sir Robert Sale on the battlefield
The Battle of Mudki was fought on 18 December 1845, between the forces of the British East India Company and a part of the Sikh Khalsa Army, the army of the Sikh Empire. The British army were able to
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…the end of the war Sale received the thanks of parliament. In 1845, as quartermaster-general to Sir Hugh Gough's army, Sale again took the field. At Moodkee (Mudki) he was mortally wounded and died on 21 December 1845. Sale married Florentia Wynch; they had three sons and seven daughters…
The 3rd Light Dragoons charging during the battle
1849 illustration of the battle
Afghan cavalry during the Battle of Mudki (18 December 1845) of the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845–46). Lithograph after an original sketch by Prince Waldemar of Prussia from 'In Memory of the Travels of Prince Waldemar of Prussia to India 1844-1846'.
Gurdwara Shahid Ganj, Mudki