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SARAGHARI , a small signalling See also: post on the Samana Range in the See also: North-West Frontier Province of See also: India between Forts See also: Lockhart and Gulistan
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It is memorable for the stout defence made by its garrison of 21 sepoys of the 36th Sikhs in 1897
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Saraghari, a See also: mere mud See also: block-See also: house with a wooden door and a dead-angle, was held for six and a See also: half See also: hours against seven or eight thousand Orakzais, till the 21 Sikhs were finally overwhelmed and killed to a See also: man
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A memorial in See also: commemoration was unveiled at Ferozepore in 1904
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