Saragarhi served as a communication relay post between Fort Lockhart and Fort Gulistan. On the morning of September 12, the Saragarhi outpost was besieged by over 10,000 Pathans who took positions ...

“I hired a researcher to visit the families and a painter to draw their likeness ... after retaking the fort on October 6, 1897, four days after the Battle of Saragarhi.

Saragarhi was a small rocky outpost situated between Fort Gulistan (Cavagnari) and Fort Lockhart in the North West Frontier Province, now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. It was manned by just 21 ...

This memorial is dedicated to the 21 brave soldiers of the 36th Sikh Regiment who bravely defended the Saragarhi fort against 10,000 ... its appeal at night, drawing visitors worldwide.

The Afghan tribes saw this as an opportunity, and on September 12, 1897, attacked Saragarhi. Their strategy was to destroy the post quickly, and capture fort Lockhart and Gulistan deeper into ...

Every years actor Randeep Hooda remembers the date, September 12, the Sikh Regiment of the Indian Army observes Saragarhi Day to commemorate the martyrdom of 21 Sikh soldiers holed up at Fort ...

Saragarhi, which was being used by the British as a communication tower between Fort Lockhart and Fort Gulistan, could hold 40 soldiers but on that fateful day, it had only 21 soldiers and a non ...

What makes the account of the Battle of Saragarhi reliable and accurate is the fact that Sepoy Gurmukh Singh who was posted there was signalling the events as they happened to Fort Lockhart by ...

Unfortunately, the Pathans had cut the supply route between Fort Lockhart and Saragarhi. Houghton radioed back, "Unable to breakthrough, hold position." Sepoy Gurmukh Singh conveyed this message ...

On the fateful day, after the tribesmen had assembled for the attack, a message was sent from Saragarhi to Fort Gulistan about the impending attack by the mammoth army. The response from the ...

FEROZEPUR: Saragarhi Memorial Gurudwara had been built in memory of 21 Sikh soldiers of the 36th Sikh Regiment, who fell in heroic defence of Fort Saragarhi in Wazirstan on September 12 ...

The Sikh soldiers of the 4th Battalion (then 36th Sikhs) of the Sikh Regiment of British India were sent to defend Fort Lockhart at Saragarhi post, in North West Frontier Province (now in Pakistan).