Significant1846
Battle of Sobraon
Sobraon · Sutlej River · Punjab
Estimated casualties
8.0K – 10Kestimated dead
Sikh dead and wounded commonly given as ~8,000-10,000, many drowned when the bridge of boats collapsed; British/Bengal losses ~2,283.
SOURCEBritannica / Wikipedia
On 10 February 1846 the British East India Company army under Hugh Gough stormed the entrenched Sikh bridgehead at Sobraon on the Sutlej, the decisive battle that ended the First Anglo-Sikh War; thousands of Sikhs died when their pontoon bridge collapsed during the retreat.
Belligerents2
- British East India Company
- Sikh Empire
ON THE MAPBritish India (1850)Sikh Empire
Sources
- Wikipedia: First Anglo-Sikh War
- Britannica: Battle of Sobraon
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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