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SARAGHARI

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 203 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SARAGHARI  , a small signalling

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

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