September 12 marks the 124th anniversary<\/strong> of the Battle of Saragarhi<\/strong> that has inspired a host of armies, books and films, both at home and abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n The Battle of Saragarhi <\/b>is considered as one of the finest last stands in the military history of the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The battle happened in 1897 between the British Indian contingent<\/strong> comprising 21 Sikh soldiers of the 36th Sikhs (now known as Indian Army’s 4th Battalion) who were stationed at Saragarhi and<\/strong> 10,000 to 12,000 Afghans Tribesmen<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n Saragarhi was the communication tower between Fort Lockhart<\/strong> and Fort Gulistan<\/strong>. The two forts were in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP)<\/strong>, now in Pakistan. The forts were built by Maharaja Ranjit Singh<\/strong> but renamed by the British.<\/span><\/p>\n Saragarhi helped to link up the two important forts which housed a large number of British troops in the NWFP.<\/span><\/p>\n Why is the Battle<\/b> of Saragarhi <\/b>achievement celebrated?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Though heavily outnumbered, the 21 Sikh soldiers led by Havildar Ishar Singh<\/strong> managed to hold the <\/span>Saragarhi <\/span>tower for seven hours till their last breath, killing 200 tribals and injuring 600.<\/span><\/p>\n This bought time for the two other forts to be reinforced and were able to defend themselves upon coming under attack.<\/span><\/p>\n Significance:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Battle of Saragarhi is the only instance<\/strong> in the history of warfare where 21 soldiers were posthumously awarded with Indian Order Merit<\/strong>, the highest award given to Indian soldiers at the time (equivalent to today’s Param Vir Chakra).<\/span><\/p>\n Source:<\/b> T<\/span>his post is based on the article<\/span> \u201c<\/b>Battle of Saragarhi explained: When 21 men fought thousands<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> Indian Express <\/b>on<\/span> 12th September 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? September 12 marks the 124th anniversary of the Battle of Saragarhi that has inspired a host of armies, books and films, both at home and abroad. About Battle of Saragarhi The Battle of Saragarhi is considered as one of the finest last stands in the military history of the world.\u00a0 The… Continue reading Battle of Saragarhi explained: When 21 men fought thousands<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[9701,9080],"class_list":["post-133562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-battle-of-saragarhi","tag-significant-events-of-modern-indian-history","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700798738,"cached_date":1704892654},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About <\/b>Battle of Saragarhi<\/b><\/h5>\n
Importance of Saragarhi<\/b><\/h5>\n